This vital defect can unquestionably be eliminated by educational reform, which would place in the foremost position the teaching of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries the modes of administration now obtaining in the Empire and the cost of financing; them, together with a thorough knowledge of the factors likely to have an adverse effect on our trade. This reform should be remembered. "that every great victory is the work of the people and they must be paid for it? znd it therefore behoves us to_educate those who will rule in the future or we are likely to be led into mistakes (on a much grander and more disastrous scale), as the first labour Governments of Australia were. No better example could be given of the imperial value of education than the results obtained in' Germany, which had the effect of securing universe] ce-operation for the almost successful struggle for world dominion.
Finally it should be pointed out that in countries like China where interests, which may in the future' be vital to us, are safeguarded by small communities, universal keeness is more than an essential.
*1 quote Kiderlan Waechter, one of Germany's greater diplomats and bitterly opposed to any breach with England.
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