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The French Foreign Minister, Aristide Briand proposed a United States of Europe. The details were published in 1930. Britain was more interested in Empire than Europe, more interested in making the League of Nations work rather than setting up something else. Individuals thought the idea a good one. The French, Italians, Dutch and Belgians were pro the idea, the Germans and British were neutral. In January 1930, the All-India National Congress passed a resolution, proposed by Gandhi, demanding independence. The Simon Commission belatedly produced its report recommending that India should become a federation of states with self-governing provinces. Egypt also wanted independence. Britain might have considered giving up her claims on Egypt but the Egyptians wanted control over the Sudan as well. This threatened Palestine and the Suez Canal. Britain regarded the Suez Canal as essential to her strategic interests in the Middle East as well as Asia.
JOHN ALLSEBROOK SIMON (1873-1954), First Viscount
"The result is that their revolutionary colours are not only gaudy, but also patchy. It is not for nothing that that what is called a jazz pattern has become the blazonry of the jazz age. The mentality really does differ from that of the old theoretical revolutionist, as a patchwork of vivid colours differs from the decorative harmony and unity of the old designs of Walter Crane. "Walter Crane was famous in his day as the artist of the socialists. But Crane had a scheme of decoration, as Shaw had a scheme of government. The mind of the disconcerted youth just now does not appear to be a scheme, even a scheme of stripes or checks; but entirely of spots and splashes."
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