gance of this utterance is characteristically English.
It is, after all, but the journalistic echo of the Churchill Glasgow
speech, and the fullest justification of the criticism of the
Kreuz Zeitung already quoted. It does not stand alone; it could be
paralleled in the columns of any English paper--Liberal as much as
Conservative--every day in the week. Nothing is clearer than that
no Englishman can think of other nations save in terms of permanent
inferiority. Thus, for instance, in a November (1912) issue of the
_Daily News_ we find a representative Englishman (Sir R. Edgecumbe),
addressing that Liberal journal in words that no one but an Englishman
would dream of giving public utterance to. Sir R. Edgecumbe deprecated
a statement that had gone round to the effect that the Malayan
battleship was not a free gift of the toiling Tamils, Japanese,
Chinese, and other rubber workers who make up, with a few Malays, the
population of that peninsula, but was really the fruit of an arbitrary
tax imposed upon these humble, but indifferent Asiatics by their
English administration.

Far from being indifferent, Sir R. Edgecumbe asserted these poor
workers nourished a reverence "bordering on veneration" for the
Englishman. "This is shown in a curious way by their refusing to
call any European 'a white man' save the Englishman alone. The German
trader, the Italian and Frenchman all are, in their speech coloured
men."

After this appreciation of themselves the English cannot object to the
present writer's view that they are non-Europeans.

Thus while the Eastern question is being settled while I write, by the
expulsion of the Turk from Europe, England, who leads the cry in the
name of Europe, is preparing the exclusion of Europe from all world
affairs that can be dominated by sea power. Lands and peoples held
for centuries by Turkey by a right not less moral than that by which
England has held Ireland, are being forcibly restored to Europe. So be
it.

With settlement of the Eastern question by this act of restitution
Europe must inevitably gain the clarity of vision to deal with the
Western question by a similar act of restoration.

The Western Macedonia must go the way of its Eastern fellow. Like
those of the Orient, the problems of the Occident for Europe are
twofold--a near Western and a far Western question. Ireland, keeper
of the seas, constitutes for Europe the near Western question.

The freedom of those seas and their