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JFCF is exactly right. White Man's Burden was a spasm of pretension. Harold Wilson's efforts to keep us there endured to 16/1/68 due largely to a notion that little UK should provide the nuclear umbrella, that would deter Chinese adventurism over the Himalayas and Irrawaddy, and deflect a Soviet-leaning Congress Party from an indigenous nuke, provoking Pakistan. Wilson had been obliged to impose "repulsive" deferral of lifting school-leaving age to 16, until 1971. Yes, we left full time education at 15 till then. Surely right, that UK's job was...to sustain UK jobs, and defend ourselves v. USSR. It was for Suharto's and Mao's neighbours to keep local loons at bay. Which they very capably have.
JFCF is exactly right. White Man's Burden was a spasm of pretension. Harold Wilson's efforts to keep us there endured to 16/1/68 due largely to a notion that little UK should provide the nuclear umbrella, that would deter Chinese adventurism over the Himalayas and Irrawaddy, and deflect a Soviet-leaning Congress Party from an indigenous nuke, provoking Pakistan.
Wilson had been obliged to impose "repulsive" deferral of lifting school-leaving age to 16, until 1971. Yes, we left full time education at 15 till then. Surely right, that UK's job was...to sustain UK jobs, and defend ourselves v. USSR. It was for Suharto's and Mao's neighbours to keep local loons at bay. Which they very capably have.
