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Op. cit. pp. 458 seqq. 5 House of Commons, 5 Aug. , Life ofLord Granville, n, 25 ; i June 1869, Hansard, 3rd ser. cxcvi, 1114. 3rd 8 ser. Part. Pap. 1872, 702], See debates in Lords, 12 ccvi, 1823 and covxn, 86 1. ser. cxcviir, also June 1330. Northcote in House of Commons, IMPERIAL QUESTIONS IN POLITICS, *2 1868-80 Red Indians it believed that the Dominion forgetting the interests of the 1 could be trusted to look after them. " Granville whose ill-will himself wrote "would probably be privately that the best solution of our difficulties that in the course of time and in the most friendly spirit the Dominion 3 enough to proclaim her independence".

N, 32. G, to Gait, who held that Canada's "independent existence as a nation in the future" was desirable and possible; Skelton, op. cit. pp. \ Hansard, 3rd ser. cc, 324, 574, 1 3rd ser. THE CANADIAN POLICY OF GRANVILLE 23 communicate this dispatch to your advisers and other you in them but because principal statesmen of Canada, it is from no want of confidence such an overture might be liable to misconstruction. M. Government will enable you to speak with confidence to them and to encourage them to speak unreservedly to you.

If the step was large and sudden, it was because shorter steps had been too long postponed. " 1 If this censure was just, why had Parliament 1 Report on Indian Constitutional Reform: Parl Pap. 1918, vni [Cmd. 9109], p. 30, i 4 failed? THE EMPIRE IN THE NEW AGE, 1870-1919 Why had not the British democracy insisted on placing India long before on the road to self-government? Those who governed India in India had had so much to do in establishing the unity of India and the justice and efficiency of its administration that they were far from ready to hand over their tasks, feeling so little done and so much to do; and those who governed her in England doubtless agreed with Sir Charles Adderley that self-government was not a general policy although a necessity for British colonies.

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