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0115 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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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