So far as I can ascertain all naval men among the Allies agree that these things can't be done.
"Here again--Is this a merely routine professional opinion--a merely traditional opinion--or is it a lack of imagination?
The question will not down.

Yet it is impossible to get facts to combat it.

What are the limits of the practicable?
"Mr.Balfour told me yesterday his personal conviction about the German colonies, which, he said, he had not discussed with his associates in the Cabinet.

His firm opinion is that they ought not to be returned to the Germans, first for the sake of humanity.

'The natives--the Africans especially--have been so barbarously treated and so immorally that it would be inhuman to permit the Germans to rule and degrade them further.
But Heaven forbid that we should still further enlarge the British Empire.