[Peerpress-main] Rd Chelmsford has established what he calls a

Jacome Woollen perforation at meiszner.com
Wed Apr 21 19:25:26 CEST 2010


Between these two ambitious

and warlike Nations. Japan will come out of the War with her army and
navy unweakened, and her trade
immensely strengthened. Every consideration of sane statesmanship
should lead Great Britain to trust India more than Japan, so that the
British Empire in Asia may rest on the sure foundation of Indian
loyalty, the
loyalty of a free and contented people, rather than be dependent on
the continued friendship of a possible
future rival. For international friendships are governed by National
interests, and are built on quicksands, not
on rock. Englishmen in
India must give up the idea that English dominance is necessary for
the protection of their interests, amounting,
in 1915, to L365,399,000
sterling. They do not claim to dominate the United States of America,
because they have
invested there L688,078,000. They
do not claim to dominate the Argentine

Republic, because they have invested
there L269,808,000. Why then should they claim to dominate India on
the ground of their investment? Britons must give up the idea that
India is a possession to be exploited for their own benefit, and must
see her as a friend, an
equal, a Self-Governing

Dominion within the Empire, a Nation like
themselves, a willing partner in the Empire, and not a dependent. The
democratic movement in Japan, China and
Russia in Asia has sympathetically affected India, and it is idle to
pretend that it will cease to affect
her. DISCUSSIONS ABROAD ON ALIEN RULE AND IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION. But
there are other causes which have been working in India, consequent on
the British attitude against autocracy and in defence of freedom in
Europe, while
her attitude
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