We have a vast fleet, no doubt, but not vast enough both to picquet our own coast-line with war-ships against raids on unprotected coast-towns, and besides that to cover the great outlying flanks of the Empire.
Morley highlights the limitations of the British fleet in protecting both the homeland and the far-flung territories of the empire.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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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