John Morley: “Coercion had for once become a flaming party issue, and when that happens all the world awakes.”

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.