FOOTNOTES:
[1] See chapter on “How India has helped England make her Empire,” in England’s Debt to India, by the present author.
[2] It has now been converted into a High Court.
VIII
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY IN INDIA
The old world, at least, believed in ideals. It believed that justice, fair play, liberty, righteousness must triumph in the end; that is, however you interpret the phrase, the old world believed in God, and it staked its existence on that belief. Millions of gallant young men volunteered to die for that divine faith. But if wrong emerged triumphant out of this conflict, the new world would feel in its soul that brute force alone counted in the government of man; and the hopelessness of the dark ages would once more fall on the earth like a cloud.
David Lloyd George
“No Halfway House.” Speech delivered at Gray’s Inn, December 14, 1917.
A whole section of the Report has been devoted to a consideration of the claims of the European Community in India. It is said: