then, however, the game was up for Britain. That very autumn, Harold MacMil- lan, the future prime minister, made his famous remark suggesting that Britain's role in the future would be to play Greece to America's Rome. That was not how Kip- ling had hoped things would turn out. But Hitchens suggests that "given the transmis- sion of British imperial notions to the Legates of the new Rome, he was not so quixotic a figure as Churchill's gesture makes him seem."
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