Then the brilliant, veteran diplomatist turned to the question of the difficulty of the future in finding food for the almost miraculously rapid increase of the population of India, and he said: In the Two Buriaas millions of acre: cultivation and cultivators, and their clinnate and products peculiarly fit them for colonisation from India." When by-and-by these colonisation developments are in full progress and we give some sort of checkmate to the recurrence of Indian famines, what will be thought by the student of political history, of the warnings and protests of home politicians in the nineteenth century against putting our foot into regions like Burma?
We feel to be a little mystified as to the personal location of that special and remarkable brain-power in Russian statesmanship which is doing such great things for the Muscovite Empire in China. In the Courts of Europe nobody outside St. Petersburg seems to have realised from the beginning the great developments that were opened up by the Japan-China war. Everybody has been put at disadvantage in relation with Russia all the time. I am saying nothing at this moment of any question of fairness or straightforwardness in diplomacy. But in the matter of astuteness in Empire-making and Empire expansion the Bismarck of 1860-1880 must take a back seat in competition with Muscovite statesmanship.
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