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The legitimate Empire also included India; it was largely
taken for granted that British troops and administrators
would remain there for an indefinite period of time, and the
occupation. could be justified by the benofitu it provided, -
"unlace we hold India for the good of the Indian people,
we have no justification for holding it at ail*"
which on its occupation in 1882, was regarded as a
dramatic instance of expansionism, by many Liberals, had
with the passage of time, fallen into the category of a
model dependency.
(2)
Tecently acquired territories
in the Sudan and Central Africa were undergoing the came
rnotanorphin from dangerous Divraelian typo adventures to
orderly examples of British administration, of which even
(1)
Egypt,
anti-Imperialists might be proud. Anti-Imperialism by no
means implies opposition to all Empiref but to aggressive
land-grabbing in tropical areas, and to the desire to paint
the nap red out of cheer acquisitiveness. An C pbell-
I3annereon put it, "love and pride of Empire'$ should not
become "greed of Empire",
(3) Anti-Imperialists were
distinguished by dislike of now expansion in countries such
no Africa; now territories might only be swallowed
as fielt accomplis by an oernoct consideration of the
(1) Percy Corder, Or ott, p. 196.
(2) The h-nrt off'rFrnp3. re, op cit, p. 319.
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(3) J. A. Spender, ©r_ it, p. 303.