CAN NATIONALISM BE SOLD AS INTERNATIONALISM VIA THE BRITISH MUSEUM?
SANCTIFICATION OF BRITISH SPOLIATIONS AND LOOT The choice of a personality as “Briton of the year” is clearly a matter for British nationalists and a non-Briton has no business examining the basis of such a choice. It is up to the British to indulge in such a game if they consider it worthwhile. However when a leading British newspaper, The Times, making such a designation for the first time, writes in this connection that the “British Museum is the best in the world”, that it is a museum for the world and refers to an “international society” and “global society”, calls its director whom it has selected as Briton of the year”, “Saint Neil” and declares that “his most profound belief is that the British Museum was established for the benefit of all nations”, then non-Britons are provoked to comment. The respectable British newspaper is repeating what it must know to be incorrect, namely that the British Museum is there for the world or humanity. This unfounded claim which is mainly aime
SANCTIFICATION OF BRITISH SPOLIATIONS AND LOOT The choice of a personality as “Briton of the year” is clearly a matter for British nationalists and a non-Briton has no business examining the basis of such a choice. It is up to the British to indulge in such a game if they consider it worthwhile. However when a leading British newspaper, The Times, making such a designation for the first time, writes in this connection that the “British Museum is the best in the world”, that it is a museum for the world and refers to an “international society” and “global society”, calls its director whom it has selected as Briton of the year”, “Saint Neil” and declares that “his most profound belief is that the British Museum was established for the benefit of all nations”, then non-Britons are provoked to comment. The respectable British newspaper is repeating what it must know to be incorrect, namely that the British Museum is there for the world or humanity. This unfounded claim which is mainly aime
