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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (3739)	5/20/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

Once I was having a conversation with Lord Moutbatten on the subject of the colonial powers. It is is interesting what he said. We were in the Rothschild's apartment in New York. It was a beautiful spring day. I mentioned in passing that it seemed to me that India was coming unstuck. This was the 1970's and India was coming unstuck. I then mentioned that the British presence in India (Mountbatten was the last Viceroy) was the last empire and it's like would never been seen again... for the number of disparate populations brought under the umbrella of one central authority. Mountbatten looked at me sharply, "No", he said quietly. "You are wrong. The last empire is Russia. I was at the coronation of my uncle and I stayed in the Kremlin. It has not changed at all since the time of the Czar's. Russia still has the largest empire in the world." Seen in this way Russia, like all the colonial powers, had to disintegrate. What we are now seeing is the dismembering of colonial contructs all over the world...Indonesia included. I trust that China, another colonial power with a multiplicity of diverse ethnic groups, will face the same strains as anyone else. Coming to India...India was never a country until 1947. Yes. That's right, India, the India you know, a nation created by the British, has existed for only fifty years. Every Indian I know here will choke on this idea. And for that matter Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Bangalore, New Delhi and Bombay are all British cities... founded by the British. And. Yes. India too will disintegrate... if only because one billion people can't be governed. In effect India has already disintegrated... into very strong and very weak state governments with less and less allegiance to the center. If a nuclear accident takes place this will onluy further the process of severing control of the center. Remember the year 1725 Mohan. The year the Moghul Emprie began to shred at the center. My best to you all,