...Malmesbury, then head of the Foreign Office, Disraeli used the words often recalled since then : " These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." Just two decades afterwards, while still in the House of Commons,...

...connection between mother country and colonies " (p. 253). In 1852 Disraeli wrote to Malmesbury that " these wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a mill-stone round our necks." Lord John Russell held much saner views, and as early as 1849 proposed...

...opposite character. The well-known exclamation in a letter to Lord Malmesbury (Aug. 13, 1852) that "these wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a mill-stone round our necks, "(4) may have been a mere petulant outburst, but it is not the sort...

...conduct of Great Britain is misrepresented in American histories. •(•Writing in 1852, Disraeli said : " These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." " having large colonial possessions in different parts of the world."...

...he averred, "We shall be ruined by our foreign possessions, ' ' and by Disraeli when he exclaimed , "These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years and are a millstone round our ntecks."2 Nevertheless they did not seek to re-establish the old colonial...

...them go despite the prestige they brought. Disraeli wrote to Lord Malmesbury on 13 August 18522 that ' these wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years and are a millstone round our necks '. JA Roebuck,3 who defended a colonial empire in general, despaired...

...British Empire would dissolve completely. In 1852, Disraeli wrote to the British Foreign Secretary, "These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years and are millstones around our necks". There was a similar sentiment in France. Most of the French statesmen...

...how deep was the feeling. For example. Lord Beaconsfield, writing in 1852, told Lord Malmesbury : ' These wretched Colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.' The Duke of Newcastle declared that he should see a dissolution of...

...Lord Beaconsfield, then Mr. Disraeli, said, in a letter to Lord Malmesbury, the Foreign Ministry, " These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and area millstone round our necks." Nor would Lord Malmesbury have been likely to publish the letter if...

...Lord Beaconsfield, then Mr. Disraeli, said, in a letter to Lord Malmesbury, the Foreign Minister, ' These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks. Nor would Lord Malmesbury have been likely to publish the letter if...