I know, however, nothing more like drifting into war than would be a resort to any military measures whatever, except with reference either to some actual fact or some well defined contingency....
Morley warns against the dangers of military action without clear justification, emphasizing the need for defined circumstances.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
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.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
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