...opinion, no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects an opportunity of resuscitating as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.' From an Imperial point of view, the best defence of x«vy iiest the colonies consists in a powerful...

...have decided that the empire shall not be destroyed, and, in my opinion, no Minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing,...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land." And this prophetic language is the utterance of a statesman whose imperialism was purely Indian...

...was his engrossing thought. Nor must it be forgotten how, in 1872, Lord Beaconsfield saw the value of ' ' reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land". Sir John Seeley (1834-1895), who held the Chair of Modern History at Cambridge in 1869, and...

...have decided that the Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no Minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land. When you return to your homes, when you return to your counties and to your cities, you must...

...nations great." Further on in the same speech he had declared, "in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land." Yet his own ministry either had no such opportunity, or neglected it, and this far-seeing view...

...have decided that the Empire shall not be • destroyed, and in my opinion no Minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing...distant sympathies which may become the source of incalulable strength and happiness to this land. Therefore, gentlemen, with respect to the second great...

...decided that the empire should not be destroyed. 'In my judgment,' he said, 'no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.' Toryism now sought three great objects: 'the maintenance of our institutions, the preservation...

...that the empire should not be destroyed. ' In my judgment,' he said, ' no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.' Toryism now sought three great objects : ' the maintenance of our institutions, the preservation...

...not be destroyed, and, in my opinion, no Minister in this country will do his dutv who neglects anv opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land." In 1884 the Imperial Federation League was formed in England under the guidance of the Hon....

...opinion, no Minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing our colonial empire and of responding to those distant...source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land." These are the words of Lord Beaconsfield, uttered more than thirty years ago. Destroy the Unionist...