Evelyn Baring Quotes
A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.
Earl of Cromer
Evelyn Baring, 1841-1917, British Governor General of Egypt, Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, 1908
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This quotation is particularly ironic in that President George W. Bushβs staff well recognized and appreciated the importance of the American Presidentβs world role. However, that President and his administration became the most world despised American President since America became a world power late in the 19th century.
He was referring to the Early Cold War. The American official position and propaganda called for Russian military and political control of Eastern Europe to end and supported uprising and revolution, but the U. S. did not have the power to dislodge Russia without risking a nuclear war.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first came to Washington, he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He often visited the historian who lived across from the White House.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Ortega sought to bring Spain closer to Europe and was an influential intellectual of βThe Generation of β98.β This quote is taken from his book, Invertebrate Spain.
See Montesquieu {618579} for a slightly earlier version.
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international control which oversaw Egyptian finances after the Egyptian bankruptcy of 1876. He later became the agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907 during the British occupation, prompted by the Urabi revolt. This position gave Baring de facto control over Egyptian finances and governance.
