Note 21 — Chapter VIII · GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS THE WAY

Consider the dedication of Lord Curzon’s Persia and the Persian Question: “To the officials, military and civil, in India, whose hands uphold the noblest fabric yet reared by the genius of a conquering nation, I dedicate this work, the unworthy tribute of the pen to a cause, which by justice or the sword, it is their high mission to defend, but whose ultimate safeguard is the spirit of the British people.”