This reads like a prologue to the Cambridge 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies There too an empire

This reads like a prologue to the Cambridge 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies There too an empire was in decline.