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Citation Information
CHAP. iv.] SELFISH INTERESTS. 89
that in the long years to come, while we
ourselves more fully realise that supporting
decayed empires in our selfish interests is
eventually detrimental to those interests, the
Russians on their side will recognise that the
action of selfishly excluding us from countries
they have absorbed recoils upon themselves
from the opposition it naturally engenders in
us. Let us desist from bolstering up effete
states in opposition to the Russians, and not
fear to extend our control where circumstances
have made this imperative, to be timid when
we see the Russians doing likewise ; and let the
Russians give up their present policy of jealously
excluding our trade from the countries they
control.
Then, and only then, will it be possible to
effect that understanding between our great
rivals and ourselves, to attain which must ever
be the goal of our endeavours.
I have shown that Manchuria is a valuable
country ; that we have rights and interests in
it ; that those rights have been threatened by
Russia, and will probably be so threatened in
the future, and that if our rights are not rigidly
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