LITTLE BELGIUM AND INDIA
"Free our women and India will be free. (...)
Until England is in difficulties we keep silent, but in the next European war- aha, aha !
Then is our time.
Who do you want instead of the English ?
The Japanese ?.
No, the Afghans, My own ancestors.
Oh, our Hindu friends will like that, won't they ?
It will be aranged- a conference of oriental statesmen.
Then he shouted : "India shall be a nation ! No foreigners of any sort ! Hindu and Moslem and Sikh and all shall be one !
Hurrah ! Hurrah for India ! Hurrah ! Hurrah !
India a nation ! What an apotheosis !
Last comer to the drab nineteenth -century sisterhood !
Waddling at this hour of the world to take her seat !
She, whose only peer was the Holy Roman Empire, she shall rank with Guatemala and Belgium perhaps. (...)
Down with the English anyhow.
That's certain.
Clear out, you fellows, double quick I say.
We may hate one another, but we hate you most.
We shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea" (p.305, 306).