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The FBI office in London raised the matter briefly with British officials as an aside, after a meeting about a more urgent matter on September 3, and sent the British service a written update on September 5. The case was not handled by the British as a priority amid a large number of other terrorist-related inquiries.
When territory wasn’t acquired by conquest — Sind from Baluchi princes, Punjab and Kashmir from the Sikhs, Maharashtra and Delhi from the Marathas, or Assam from Burma — the British annexed it by so-called Principles of Lapse and Paramountcy.
Subsequent British advisers served on a consultative State council alongside the Malay ruler, chiefs, and Chinese kapitans.
But the fact remains: The British people's elected representatives can be paid specifically to influence legislation--and no one cares.
The sculptures were bought in 1803 from the then-Turkish authorities in Athens by the British aristocrat Lord Elgin, who subsequently donated them to the British Museum.