The time is coming when a naval war (except by England), will be as relentlessly suppressed as piracy on the high seas." (_Review of Reviews_, December, 1912.) The naive arrogance of this utterance is characteristically English.
It is, after all, but the journalistic echo of the Churchill Glasgow speech, and the fullest justification of the criticism of the Kreuz Zeitung already quoted.

It does not stand alone; it could be paralleled in the columns of any English paper--Liberal as much as Conservative--every day in the week.

Nothing is clearer than that no Englishman can think of other nations save in terms of permanent inferiority.

Thus, for instance, in a November (1912) issue of the _Daily News_ we find a representative Englishman (Sir R.Edgecumbe), addressing that Liberal journal in words that no one but an Englishman would dream of giving public utterance to.

Sir R.Edgecumbe deprecated a statement that had gone round to the effect that the Malayan battleship was not a free gift of the toiling Tamils, Japanese, Chinese, and other rubber workers who make up, with a few Malays, the population of that peninsula, but was really the fruit of an arbitrary tax imposed upon these humble, but indifferent Asiatics by their English administration.
Far from being indifferent, Sir R.Edgecumbe asserted these poor workers nourished a reverence "bordering on veneration" for the Englishman.