 | Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland - 1904 - 548 sider
...man living better qualified to pronounce, only so lately as the spring of the present year : " India is like a fortress, with the vast moat of the sea...height, and admit of being easily penetrated, extends a glacis of varying breadth and dimension. We do not want to occupy it, but we also cannot afford to... | |
 | Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1906 - 736 sider
...SPEECH March 30, 1904 About Foreign Affairs in their wider application I do not propose to say much. I spoke last year about the increasing range of our...height and admit of being easily penetrated, extends a glacis of varying breadth and dimensions. We do not want to occupy it, but we also cannot afford... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 860 sider
...men to keep the peace, internal and external, of some 300,000,000 people. India has been likened to a "fortress with the vast moat of the sea on two of...and with mountains for her walls on the remainder." For the Hindus the <(black water," as they call the ocean, was protection enough until the navies came... | |
 | 1919 - 878 sider
...men to keep the peace, internal and external, of some 300,000,000 people. India has been likened to a "fortress with the vast moat of the sea on two of her faces and with mountain's for her walls on the remainder." For the Hindus the "black water," as they call the ocean,... | |
 | Khushal Talaksi Shah - 1921 - 496 sider
...defence and maintenance of order "^ (Budget Discussion ItfUl-OJ.) ; *' India ", siia uis Lurdsuip, " is liKe a fortress with the vast moat of the sea on two of her faces and with mountains for ner walls on the remainder. .But beyond tnese walls, wuicn are some times of by no means iusuperaule... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Peabody Gooch - 1923 - 690 sider
...debate on the Address, February and, 1904, and on February z6th, in a debate raised by Lord Reay. India is like a fortress with the vast moat of the sea on...her walls on the remainder. But beyond those walls extends a glacis of varying breadth and dimensions. We do not want to occupy it; but we cannot afford... | |
 | Bhalchandra Gangadhar Sapre - 1925 - 618 sider
...Asiatic and European powers was thus put in a picturesque manner by Lord Curzon : (Budget speech 1904). " She is like a fortress with the vast moat of the sea...remainder. But beyond those walls, which are sometimes by no means of insuperable height and admit of being easily penetrated, extends a glacis of varying... | |
 | Norman Dwight Harris - 1926 - 798 sider
...disposal." And this doctrine applied equally well to southern Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Burma. "India is like a fortress with the vast moat of the sea on her two faces, and with mountains for her walls on the remainder," exclaimed Lord Curzon, in 1904,... | |
 | Khushal Talaksi Shah - 1927 - 588 sider
...local defence and maintenance of order" (Budget Discussion 1904-05). J "India", said his Lordship, " is like a fortress with the vast moat of the sea on...mountains for her walls on the remainder. But beyond these walls, which are sometimes of by no means insuperable height and admit of being easily penetrated,... | |
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We do not want to occupy it, but we also cannot afford to see it occupied by our foes. We are quite content to let it remain in the hands of our... 