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...England has been on various occasions humiliating. And, above all, Russia has shown a greatness and ferocity of will and conviction equal to, if not greater than, the vaunted fanaticism of the Hun. So, for all these reasons, the fact of Russia is most prominent in the minds of Englishmen, and in their emotions, too. In a word, Soviet Russia is immensely popular. By comparison, their cousin country of America is scarcely noticed; at best, America is taken for granted; at worst, they think a good deal less highly of America than of themselves, which is not very highly...
...Englishmen will ever look back with pleasure to the beginning of 1942. The longest cold spell in a century hung on and on. It would have been dreary enough in any case. The acres of ruins in all the big cities no longer evoked the sense of great battles nobly borne by humble people in their homes and shops...
Something like that seems to them the logic of the situation. The logic is derived in part from shocking news-hitherto completely unsuspected in Britain-that the Englishmen in Singapore were all very rich, drank a great deal went to nightclubs and failed to inspire the natives to die for the Empire. The question of whether the natives of Malaya should have been given their freedom had apparently not been brought up. But it was indeed recalled that the Indians had requested freedom some time ago. And it was excessively annoying" to discover that such a simple-and presumably inexpensive...
England wished India to have freedom. But what did Englishmen mean by freedom? They tacitly assumed that it meant something like dominion status. And that perhaps was all that India asked. But this spring, if a speculative reporter asked an Englishman whether he was prepared to give India complete freedom, whether he was willing that neither the King-Emperor nor any other Englishman should have any rule or special rights whatever in the subcontinent of India, it was quite apparent that the average Englishman had never even thought of such a thing...
There are less than 600 Englishmen in the entire Indian civil service...