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The Commonwealth, too, has its Cavaliers, who are Wrong but Wromantic, and its Roundheads, who are Right but Repulsive: the soft-hearted idealists and the hard-headed realists. According to the Roundheads, the hard facts of geography, or of Britain’s economic weakness, or of the hostility of the newly independent Afro-Asians and their reaction against colonialism have made the Commonwealth obsolete: a millstone: an albatross. The sooner we get rid of it the better.
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See Michael Lipton, ‘Prospects for Commonwealth Co-operation and Planning’, in Commonwealth Policy in a Global Context, edited by Paul Streeten and Hugh Corbet (Frank Cass, 1971 ).
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Streeten, P. (1972). A New Commonwealth. In: The Frontiers of Development Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05017-8_23
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