The Weary Titan: Popular Imperialism

Rosebery at Glasgow, 1900‘An empire such as ours requires as its first condition an imperial race … Are we rearing such a race? … In the great cities, in the rookeries and slums … an imperial race cannot be reared … That is a rift in the corner-stone of your Commonwealth’.

Alliances

Japan (1902) France (1904) Russia (1907)

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN (1836-1914)