... careful yet quick and business-like method of working. He set about most expeditiously and zealously on the path of finding an agreed solution for a united India but in course of his talks, particularly with Jinnah, he became convinced that there was no prospect of such an agreed ... solution.During their discussions on the 4 of April, Gandhi suggested that Jinnah should be called to form an interim government which should eventually take ... reject them. He suggested that they should keep Gandhi in good humour and play for time. In the same note, Menon still considered that the ideal ...

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... be conducive to the permanent establishment of an improved system of government." The Earl of Durham, who had been sent to the colony to deal with the rebellion and propose a solution, supported the colonists' claim for responsible government. "He was convinced that the collisions between the Executive and the Assembly occurring in all of the provinces, were the direct result of ... the irresponsibility of the provincial oligarchies. . . the obvious solution to the problem was the extension of the British system to the colonies. . . the conduct of government must be placed in the hands ...

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... to Joll, "governments were able to fight the war because their subjects accepted the necessity for it." Some people believed that a war would solve internal problems. Others saw it as a solution for external ones. Joll thus concludes that, ultimately, it was "attitudes which made the war possible." The author concluded his work admitting that, in a different time, a historian will see causes ... ." In his analysis, Mayer points out that Germany's social issue pushed politicians to want war in order to provide a solution to internal problems. In Britain, France and Italy, "liberalism [ ] ...

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... the western and northern region.it is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and isles. The greatest distance between two points is 568km (601,5miles) (between land's end, Cornwall and john O'Groats, caithness), or 1,349(838miles) using the national road network. The English channel is thought to have been created between 450,000 and 180,000years ago by two catastrophic glacial ... . The black slaves started arriving in Britain in the small numbers due to their involvement in the slave trader. John Lok was the first trader in London to bring to England five slaves from Guinea in 1555.O...

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... the imperial link especially with the kith and kin overseas, and the use of broadcasting in the colonies as an instrument of administration, education and entertainment. The BBC Director-General, John Reith was interested in colonial broadcasting and pushed for it. He was interested in seeing the establishment of both the Empire Service for the BBC and autonomous local broadcasting stations ... up the interest in colonial broadcasting. During the short time that Malcom McDonald was Secretary of State for the Colonies, he convened a meeting at the Colonial Office attended by Sir John Maf...

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... these powers comes from the party he represents. If a Prime Minister loses the support from his party's backbenchers, his position becomes very weak. This happened to both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In one speech made in the House of Commons, Geoffrey Howe, a former Cabinet colleague of Thatcher's, started the process that lead to an effective revolt against her style of ... leadership and her ultimate resignation as Prime Minister in 1990. John Major also experienced a revolt over his support for Britain developing greater links with Europe. He is alleged to have referred to tho...

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... the rebels (Collier 2006).  More so, Collier (2000) argues respectively that grievances do not have the attempt to become a full-blown civil war in the society because it seeks for solution compared to the greed. It is worthy to note that grievance seeks to have a change in government, but not to be on the part of the rebellion. Why those rebelling ... ...

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... weaponry. The British, because of this, decided to exclude themselves in any further conflict in Asia and instead demanded a political consultation between the Netherlands and Indonesia in order to find a solution. The Dutch's aim after this was to gradually decolonise and make Indonesia into a federal state, but still being joined with the Netherlands in a Netherlands-Indonesian Union. The Dutch eventually took ... ...

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... because it would mean that they would lose political control. This economic growth produced a renewed interest in consolidating the south of Africa but the British were still no closer to a solution. Two methods of achieving this federation, the voluntary and the coercive, had both been tried and failed. The current hope in the 1890's was that (in Lord Salisbury's words) by ... ...

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... because it would mean that they would lose political control. This economic growth produced a renewed interest in consolidating the south of Africa but the British were still no closer to a solution. Two methods of achieving this federation, the voluntary and the coercive, had both been tried and failed. The current hope in the 1890's was that (in Lord Salisbury's words) by ... ...

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... 1952. The colonel leading the young officers of the revolution, Nasser, embodied everything that the Egyptian people were looking for. He was brash and assertive, and promised economic reforms and a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. His envisionment for Egyptian and the Arab society collectively would prove to evolve unlike anything he had envisioned or expected. In 1956, as a result of ... ...

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... consulted with them . Since Muslims make up the majority of the population, Pakistan claims that Kashmir should be a part of Pakistan. After the partition, in the absence of a quick satisfactory solution to the Kashmir problem, Pakistan sent an army to capture the territory, and India's army was invited by the Maharaja to defend the territory. In January 1948, India and Pakistan ... ...

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... tea in the Colonies and subsequently undercut the cheap prices charged from illegal transactions with the Dutch.xxiiiTherefore, the smugglers who gained tremendous commercial benefits from violating laws such as John Hancock were vexed and then fomented the glorious mob causing estimated one million dollar loss of the present-day value to their business competitor by dumping an entire shipment of ... ...

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... ending the slave trade. These were some of the goals of the first one to bring the interior of Africa to the attention of most people in Europe, David Livingstone. John A. Hobson, Imperialism (London: Allen and Unwin, 1948),pp.3 ­5 71 ­72,77 ­78,80 ­81,92 ­93 The Influence of India on British Imperialism in Africa, or, "Why the World Revolves ... ...

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... of Great Britain took over all responsibility from the British East India Company. Commerce now formally gave way to empire. And despite the protestation of one of its chief executives, John Stuart Mill, the company that had been signed into being by Queen Elizabeth I was now signed into extinction by Queen Victoria. Its army was reorganized into the Indian Army; its ... ...

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... January 10, 1900, the British general Frederick S. Roberts was sent to replace Buller as commander, though he remained in the war effort. Early in February, Roberts order the British commander John D. P. French north to relieve the city of Kimberly; French's objective was attained four days later. Simultaneously, Roberts undertook a northeastward march from cape Colony in to the Orange Free State. Attacked ... ...

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... reason so many people starved to death was because of the direct actions taken by the British, fueled by racism toward the Irish. In The Last Conquest of Ireland, 1861, John Mitchell wrote: "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight but the English created the famine." Mitchel further observed that "a million and a half men, women, and children were carefully, prudently, and ... ...

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... . B The War Hawks The strongest agitation for war came from the frontier regions of the United States. Western and southern representatives in Congress, most notably Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina, led a pro-war faction that became known as the War Hawks. They believed that British officers from Canada were encouraging Native American peoples to rebel ... ...

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... The Norton Anthology of English Literature, M.H. Abrams, general editor. (London: W.W. Norton, 1962, 2000) Islam, Shamsul. Kipling's Law: A Study of His Philosophy of Life (London: The MacMillan Press Ltd., 1975) McClure, John A. "The Rhetoric of Restraint in Heart of Darkness- in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Volume 32, Issue 3 (Dec. 1977), pp. 310-26 - available through www.jstor.org Raskin, Jonah. The Mythology of ... ...

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... Turner. In addition, angry whites killed about 100 innocent slaves. The rebellion caused the Southern States to pass strict laws for the control of slaves, especially those who were preachers. 6. John Brown - He lived and worked successively in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. Meanwhile, he had conceived an intense hatred of the institution of slavery and had resolved to do everything ... ...

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... for all. Although this does mirror some initial acceptance and even encouragement of an almost feudal system, as early as 1630. Aboard the Arbella, en route to the New World, John Winthropp described the inequality of wealth and social/political status (into which people were born at the time) as "for the glory of (the individual's) Creator and the common good ... ...

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