the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest … - Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

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