By 1947, when the drafting of the UDHR began, the UK Labour government had begun what the Labour Party's Tribune newspaper called 'Fabianising the Empire'. Established in 1884 with the goal of reconstructing British society to secure 'the general welfare and happiness', by the twentieth century the Fabians had turned their attention from 'civilising' the British working class to developing the Empire.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 239