The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 by Roger Casement
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each other, or have consistent aims, save one.
That satisfied, they will surely fall out among themselves, and the greater the plunder derived from their victory the more certain their ensuing quarrel. Great Britain, in her dealings with most white people (not with all) is a democracy. Russia in her dealings with all, is an autocracy. Great Britain is democratic in her government of herself and in her dealings with the great white communities of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. She is not democratic in her dealings with subject races within the Empire--the Indians, notably, or the Irish. To the Indians her rule is that of an absentee autocracy, differing in speech, colour, religion and culture from those submitted to it by force; to the Irish that of a resident autocracy bent on eliminating the people governed from residence in their own country, and replacing them with cattle for British consumption. In both instances Britain is notably false to her professions of devotion to democratic principles. Her affinity with Russia is found then, not in the cases where her institutions are good, but in those where they are bad. An alliance founded on such grounds of contact can only produce evil. To such it gave birth in Persia, to such it must give birth in the present war. |
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