India and the Empire.

Focuses on the final address by colonial historian Lionel Curtis at the Williams College Institute, of Politics, an apology for imperialism, and specifically for the British Empire as a practical contribution to that ultimate political ideal, a supernational state. Admittance by Curtis that unless the principle of the commonwealth replaces that of empire the whole structure will fall; Observation of the dependence of extension of the principle of commonwealth on self-government; Opinion of Curtis that the presence of India within the Empire was essential to the development of a world state animated by Anglo-Saxon ideals of freedom.