In other words, one of the most certain results of pursuing the spirited foreign policy in Europe, which is so dear to the Imperialist or Bombastic school, would be to bring about that disintegration of the Empire which the same school regard as the crown of national disaster.
Morley critiques the imperialist foreign policy, suggesting it could lead to the disintegration of the Empire, which he views as a national disaster.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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