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of two different races. In questions of Government we should

of course request the Government to reach a settlement but

when we say a settlement by Government that by no means implies requesting the Civil Governor to urge the diplomatic authorities

Not at all: merely to take the case up as firmly as possible.

that course would be quite useless. The present proposal is

that we should merely put into force forthwith self determination

or in other words merely rapidly recapture our country's soil and

recover our sovereign powers. If we do not, then the dangers of

our future path will be still further intensified even when

compared with the present lamentable murders.

These are not alarmist words of mine nor are they uttered

to excite my readers.

Anyone examining an Englishman's character must know that

he is extremely jealous, truculent, haughty, arrogant of his

He has hi therto origin and prejudiced against other races.

looked on us as money-grubbers, cowards, blockheads, weak, poor

and disunited animals. He has accordingly always taken up

towards us a jeering insulting and threatening attitude without any thought of fear, but this strike has given him a big lesson

and he has suddenly received a little enlightenment. Habitually

arrogant and artful he is quite unable to be sincere and straight-

forward in accordance with the correct principles of humanity

towards friends and so his attitude has now been transformed into

one of rage and resentment and it can be predicted that his pre-

cautions against us in the future will be still more strict and

his plans still more laborious.

I remember during the Duropean War Indians who in any way

were men of note in the community were without exception shadowed

Students too have special cause for

by British detectives.

resentment/