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Knowlton have shown that parathion used as an in- secticide and applied to alfalfa, sweet clover, and to other plants attractive during the period of bloom is poisonous to honey bees. 7 he bombardier beetles eject a volatile fluid when chased. Upon contact with the air the fluid evaporates so rapidly that there is an audible ex- plosion which will lay the pursuer on its back even if several times larger than the beetle. PURITY BISCUIT COMPANY • Salt Lake • Phoenix MARCH 1952 129 THE COLONIAL REVOLUTION Tt is a commonplace with historians By DR. G. HOMER DURHAM that, the unification of the world, fore- Head of Political Science Department, cast by the Crusades' opening of east- University of Utah west communication lines, spurted into reality about 1500 A.D. The unifica- ''i/-**-J * that tion of the world has proceeded apace, PROFESSIONAL LOOK under western European auspices, ever other imperial excursions into the wide since Columbus' voyages to the New world: the Portuguese port of Macao in with the- World; the rounding of the Cape of China; the Spanish Cuba, Guam, and Good Hope by the Portuguese naviga- Philippines; the French Indo-China. tors, simultaneously pushing out to The historical map of the United States ANKER India, the East Indies, China, the is another case in point, marking the Philippines, and Japan; there were two world conflicts among these western Eu- ZIG-ZAG prongs of a worldwide encirclement ropean powers, for supremacy: Spanish emanating from western Europe. Florida, Texas, and California; Swedish By 1900 the world was Europeanized. Delaware; Dutch New York; the French At least a veneer of European language, Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. custom, trade, artifacts had become a But on the very eve of the British global spread. Beneath the veneer, the achievement commenced the colonial pattern of the European nation-state revolution in the world. It has proceed- had become, or was in process of be- ed in three waves: (1) the revolt of coming everywhere, the hard core of white European colonists against Euro- NO ATTACHMENTS global society. Thus, the peans in home countries, European state - system, as in the case of Amer- Incredibly versatile, yet the first regional state- ica (1776) and Latin- system to become a uni- America (1808-1824) and it's the smoothest, easiest versal, global system, by Canada (1837); (2) the sewing machine you ever 1900 was thickening, revolt of subject na- saw. Just touch the built- spreading, and deepen- 1^ tive peoples against Eu- overlayer of gen- ropean rule, as in the in STITCH-O-METER and ing the ^ffcf* eral European culture Sepoy rebellion in India do: throughout the world. (1858), the Taiping and ZIG- BUTTON- Commenced by the ultimately the Boxer re- ZAGGING HOLES Spanish and Portuguese, other western bellions (1900) in China, the achieve- BUTTON- MONO- European states early joined in the ment of independence by Indonesia, SEWING GRAMING process. The English, the French, the India, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon Dutch, and the Swedes came by sea. after 1945; (3) the revolt of subject BLIND- HEM- The Russians went by land, expanding native peoples against white European STITCHING STITCHING across Asia to the northern Pacific. The colonists who themselves had once re- largely content with landward volted against their APPLIQUE I EMBROIDERY Russians, own white brethren. expansion, met less opposition than their The colonial revolutions have been and Wonderful Straight western neighbors, who, one by one, in almost Newtonian in their operation: Sewing . great world conflicts that spread over to every action, there is an opposite re- Guaranteed a Lifetime the seven seas, were eliminated and action. So, as Europeans have global- molded into a pattern shaped by Brit- ized the planet, leaving their tracks, ish sea power. Thus Asiatic, American bases, and outposts, swallowing up what (north and south), African, and Pacific could be swallowed, expanding and ex- island outposts, held at various times panding, there internal Full Selection have been and by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, external reactions. of Fine Cabinets Dutch, or Swedish, eventually came Since World War II we have been and Desks within the framework of the British witnessing one of the largest and most political empire; or were tolerated as recent aspects of the colonial revolu- independent states or as colonies of the LIBERAL TRADE-IH tions: China, freed from white Euro- al., French, Spanish, et within the pean domination for the first time in For the and Address Name larger framework of British sea power 1945 (through the peculiar ministry of of your local dealer, phone and a global British commercial em- Japan, the United States, and Russia), or write . pire. moved from the orbit of western Europe The unification of the world after into the orbit of the most Asiatic of the WILLIAMS 1500 then began as a pluralistic move- European powers— Russia. ment under plural auspices. But by 1815 The millions of the masses in Asia Sewing Machine Co. the British had achieved a "balance of are on the march. The colonial revolu- 50 So. Main Salt Lake City, Utah power" consisting of their own empire tion is at fever heat. The U.S.A. is cast 5-8651 Phone as its hard core. A layer of independent in the peculiar and difficult role of Dealers franchises available. states, potential allies or neutrals, func- seeming to oppose this movement. Rus- tioned within her commercial empire. sia is cast in the misleading and favor- Special discount to Attached to these independent states, in able role of appearing to lead and en- Church Organizations greater or less degree, were remnants of courage it. But the fact in Asia remains. 130 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — 1 1 1 The second and third waves of the colonial revolution are sweeping all be- fore them. Currently the Near Eastern Moslem world is seething. Carefully nurtured and manipulated by British experience, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Trans-Jordan—the en- tire strategic Middle East with its oceans of petroleum—are seeking to de- x^L--r- termine their own destiny, free of west- ern, white dominance. The British have i BM"» the largest experience with the colonial revolution. Having gained most, since («f the days of Francis Drake, they have had most to lose. Some stakes have been ARE 5TEPPINGST0NES TO GREATER contested and lost by force—the United KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING States. Some have been peacefully ad- justed with hardly a ripple—Canada; Members, teachers, missionaries and gospel students, and to lesser degree, Ceylon, Burma, here are books greatly needed for your church activities India, Pakistan.