Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
4 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
“It is the end of the British Empire.”
Remark to Harold Nicolson (22 September 1938) after Neville Chamberlain flew to Godesberg to meet Hitler, quoted in Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1930-1964 (London: Penguin, 1980), p. 134
The 1930s
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“The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.”
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940) Jewish leader
Palestine Bulletin, (1934-01-04) ( Source http://www.transatlantikblog.de/2014/03/31/jabotinsky-juden-britisches-empire/).
“[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.”
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929) British politician
Speech at the unveiling of a bust of the late Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald at Westminster Abbey (16 November 1892), reported in The Times (17 November 1892), p. 9. Leo McKinstry, Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (John Murray, 2006), p. 120.
“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race.”
Billy Hughes (1862–1952) Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia
Speech during the 1917 federal election campaign (c. March 1917), quoted in Neville Kingsley Meaney, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923: Volume 2 (2009), p. 202
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917) British diplomat
Political and Literary Essays, 1908-1913
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.”
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (2 October 1972); Labour Party Annual Conference Report (1972), p. 103
1970s
“It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.”
Stafford Cripps (1889–1952) British politician
Hull Daily Mail, 2 March, 1936.
Charles, Prince of Wales (1948) son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
"'It's no wonder this region gets jumpy about the Chinese...'", Mail on Sunday, 13 November 2005, p. 8.
Entry in private journal referring to an incident in which he had to fly in business class while leading politicians flew in first class.
2000s
William Joyce (1906–1946) British fascist and propaganda broadcaster
Broadcast, Radio Cologne, 8 April 1943.
