The Peril of the WhiteW. Collins sons & Company Limited, 1925 - 207 pages |
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Page 64 - The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League.
Page 63 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world...
Page 40 - Primarily Kenya is an African territory, and His Majesty's Government think it necessary definitely to record their considered opinion that the interests of the African Natives must be paramount, and that if and when those interests and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail.
Page 110 - By far the greater part of the native white stock is descended from persons enumerated in 1 790 in the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee ; but a small proportion is made up of persons whose ancestors were living, or who were themselves living, in other areas when those areas were first enumerated.
Page 129 - ... at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century . . . not in obscure corners of the earth among an illiterate and fanatical populace, but in the chief centers of American civilization.
Page 124 - Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than the peoples of Argentina and Chile break the peace which at the feet of Christ the Redeemer they have sworn to maintain...
Page 31 - Government under the name of the Union of South Africa, those Colonies becoming original provinces of the Union under the names of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State respectively.
Page 66 - There can be no doubt that the establishment of the Jewish colonies in Palestine, the primary object of which was to provide for destitute emigrant Jews, has brought about a great change in the aspect of the country, and an example has been set before the native rural population of the manner in which agricultural operations are conducted on modern and scientific principles.
Page 34 - White civilisation except as a proportionately diminishing minority and in face of an increasing, and at last an overwhelming, majority. It may then be forced to abandon its domination, or even to abandon the country.
Page 97 - Mass action thus begun will develop into organized agrarian strikes, into food riots, the plunder of corn-stocks and assaults upon large estates with the idea of confiscation. The downtrodden peasantry must be made conscious of their right to live like human beings and our propaganda should be aimed at making them understand that they should conquer this right by militant action. Such action, properly organized on a large scale, will arouse them from their age-long mental...