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Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892 [8r] (15/40)
The record is made up of 1 file (20 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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able to the fact that those who sit in offices and
Chambers in Westminster really suppose themselves to
be the fly-wheel of the machinery, both of Kingdom and
Empire, whereas the men of action, who have built up the
Lord Rosebery proceeds to say that the Foreign
policy of the Empire is divisable into the questions of
India and Canada, and that our foreign policy has become
a Colonial policy. I venture to think that Lord Rosebery
is mistaken. There is such a thing as the ocean;' there
is a sea called the Mediterranean; there is the Isthmus
of Suez, and the Continent of Africa. All these regions
seem to me to have very important bearings on our Foreign
policy, and yet they are not India or Canada. The power
of this country might be irretrievably destroyed In the
Mediterranean or in the Channel before Canada or India
Empire, regard the Metropolitan
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Typed copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given in support of Edward Brodie Hoare's campaign for re-election as MP for Hampstead with annotations and corrections in ink by Pelly.
Pelly had been asked by Hoare to give a talk, which he believed was to be a 'parlour talk' to a few friends, until he discovered it was being advertised in the Times and other leading newspapers of the time.
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The file has printed foliation in thetop right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, with the exception of folio 1 where the foliation number has been inserted in pencil.
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- Mss Eur F126/25
- Title
- Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892
- Pages
- 1r:20v
- Author
- Pelly, Sir Lewis
- Copyright
- ©Major General Charles Vyvyan
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