Given earlier events in Britain, this seems appropriate:

A leading college at Cambridge University has renamed its controversial colonial-themed Empire Ball after accusations that it was “distasteful”. The £136-a-head Emmanuel College ball was advertised as a celebration of “the Victorian commonwealth and all of its decadences”.
Students were urged to “Party like it’s 1899″ and organisers promised a trip through the Indian Raj, Australia, the West Indies and 19th century Hong Kong.
But anti-fascist groups said the theme as “distasteful and insensitive” because of the British Empire’s historical association with slavery, repression and exploitation.
The ball Committee, led by presidents Richard Hilton and Jenny Unwin, has announced the word ‘Empire’ will be removed from all promotional material.

The way things are going in Britain it would make more sense to drop the word “Balls”.

PS Interesting that “anti-fascism” now means attacking the British Empire, which stood alone against fascism in that critical year between the fall of France and Germany’s invasion of Russia.