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LEST WE FORGET!" 



"The Rule of Conduct which serves as the fundamental basis of 

 democracy in the United States of America is that every human being 

 should have his opportunity for his utmost development."— Di'. Ilines 

 Page, the American Ambassador, in the Nineteenth Century Hevieio, 

 October, 1917, p. 783. 



"The Wealth of the Country depends less on its natural resources 

 than on the vigour, the energy and the training of its people." — The 

 Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd-George) at the Royal Albert Hall, on 

 October 22, 19 17. 



" It is not only additional men that are wanted [to help the Govern- 

 ment], but it is the getting of men of an exceptional type hotii in ability 

 and experience."— The Chancellor of the Exchequer when discussing 

 the appointment of additional members to the Treasury. House of 

 Commons, January 29, 1918. 



" When I was at the Colonial Office I was struck by the evidence 

 of immense natural resources in many of our Colonies. I thought it 

 was possible that the time might come wlien we could pay off part of 

 our national debt by rapidly developing, through the State, these 

 resources. ... I need not point out to the House how many objec- 

 tions would be raised to that kind of proposal if one were seriously to put it 

 forward. . . . You would find people saying that to try to develop 

 the resources of our Colonies for the benefit of this country in that way 

 would be exploiting them." — The Chancellor of the Exchequer on Paying 

 for the War. House of Commons, January 29, 191S. 



" Under the scheme we want to see established, of granting agricul- 

 tural scholarships from the lower schools in the United Kingdom to the 

 secondary ones, and then up to the agricultural colleges at home or in the 

 Tropics, everyone will have an equal chance with his fellows. The 

 Empire needs such help, and we must therefore see that all those under 

 training live healthy lives whilst being taught. Steady work, strong 

 limbs, sound health, tenacity of purpose, keenness to seize every oppor- 

 tunity to push yourself and your country ahead, these are the monopoly of 

 no single class, or, if they are, such qualities are perhaps more frequently 

 found in those who have never had all that money could buy. . . In 

 our Imperial development scheme, every man who means to get on shall 

 get on." — Tropical Life, August, 1917, p- 124. 



