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As regards the first two of these premisses, it may, we think, be taken for granted that England means to go thus far, but no further. The power that has impelled the Imperial Ministry to make the present demonstration of its authority in South Africa is the same power that has prevented mr. Gladstone from going as far hitherto.
«Accustomed as we are to regard Delagoa Bay as a formidable competing port in its relation towards the trade of the Transvaal, we are apt to exaggerate the real proportions of the trade done there.
It is simply absurd to suppose that Germany has not cherished designs more or less ambitious, based upon the apparent desire of England to get rid of its responsibilities in South Africa. To deny, or even to doubt the existence of these designs contingent always upon a policy of abdication and retirement on England's part is simply to ignore the abounding evidence of experience and of fact.
«We colonists might well hail with delight the proclamation of German rule over the territories stretching from shore to shore north of the Limpopo and its parallel, and south of the Congo. A German empire in those regions would form a magnificent background to an Anglo-African Dominion on this side.» The trade of Lourenço Marques
Had Portuguese rule in East Africa shown any sort of vitality or reality no one cherishing any regard for international amity could have any fair plea to desire its displacement. By the ordinary rules of conquest and occupation Portugal has a title to possession sanctioned by three centuries of existence.
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