... Its (British) people and the peoples of the world are its (British imperialism's) greatest stumbling blocks, for the peoples are now weary of war, strife and turmoil and want peace and want to buy it at any price and are not at all interested in the maintenance of the old world and are not sanguine about the old world benefitting them much or hoping to live again. ...

(Presidential Address, AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946)