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You've got to

be fussy

over horses..

Fussy about their training

-fussy about who rides them. Personally I find it's the only way. For instance, I don't much care to lead in a lucky winner; but it gives me the rarest pleasure to watch any thoroughbred ridden to a faultless victory.

In the same way I appreciate the good judgment used in the making

THE CHINA MAIL, APF

BOOK REVIEW BY H.N. BRAILSFÖRI

THE TRUTH AB

Empire or Democracy? A study

of the Colonial Question, by Leon- ard Barnes: (Gollancz, 78. 6d.; Left Book Club choice, to members, 2s.

6d.)

INCE J. A. Hobson wrote his

SINCE

classical study of British Im- perialism, no book on this subject has appeared that ranks in impor- tance with this volume by Mr. Leonard Barnes.

There are chapters in it written with moving eloquence that show a wide sweep of thought. There are others that dissect the economic and political realities of native life in Africa, which the most complacent reader will find disturbing, for their data admit of no question.

The constructive chapters that outline a policy are no less unflin- of White Horse Whisky.ching and courageous, though they I've yet to discover a richer may not fully convince every read- er who accepts Mr. Barnes's out-

flavour with a finer frag-look. rance, a silkier smoothness

to

with a more heartening survey the dependent empire at a

glow. Till I do, I shall sist on White Horse,"

WHITE HORSE

The purpose of the book is

moment when the claim for the re- in-turn of the German colonies has put it morally and politically on the defensive.

Whisky

Sole Agents for South China: Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.

DRINK

EWO PILSNER

At the

Hong Kong Hotel

SOCIAL PULL

On the other hand, as Mr. Barnes puts it, the dependent empire does enable large numbers of middle- What, to begin with, is its place class people to lead upper-class in our national life? The picture lives. There are about 200,000 em- has changed fundamentally since ployees, official and unofficial, in the pre war period. At the present the dependent empire, who together low level of native consumption, reinforce the middle-class income alike in India and Africa, it is no group at home to the extent of longer an indispensable market, about 10 per cent... Mr. Barnes believes that the whole dependent empire absorbs only 2 per cent. of the total produce British industry.

This social pull of the dependent of empire is clearly, then, more im- portant than its significance either as market or field of investment. It The export of capital that was is primarily what James Mili ́call-~ the salient feature of the great ed it, a system of outdoor relief for period of imperial expansion has the governing class. ebbed for the British Empire as a whole; until in comparison with The picture Mr. Barnes draws of the last pre-war years it now stands colonial Africa will startle no one

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in the ratio of 3 to 7, and capital who has read the books of Dr. Nor- 17,000 Afri is, in fact, being repatriated more man Leys on Kenya, but it is con- work of ext rapidly than it is sent out.

tinental in its sweep. The histori-

cal chapters are the least success- On an exc The whole income from past in- ful, but the general picture is well ate, taking vestments in the dependent empire drawn.

indirect ser mines may

is in the region of £88,000,000,

which is slightly less than 1 per Some of the more salient cases of their twelve cent. of our total national income. exploitation deserve to be quoted. The rest is This may be enjoyed by a class that Thus the copper mines of Northern exerts great political influence, but Rhodesia export this metal to the

Again it it is a negligible factor in the econ- value of £12,000,000 annually. Of Europeans a omic life of England.

this £5,000,000 goes to dividends dustry of Ny

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