Charles Emmerson said this quote

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

~ Charles Emmerson

The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britains own position in the empire had changed. Once, the country been the engine room of empire, the productive heart of the beast. But with Britain becoming more like a boardroom, investing money, taking decisions, but essentially living off the labor of others, and off the earnings of the past? At some point in the future, might even this role wither away, and might Britain become little more than a repository of British tradition, a common idealized land into which Britons abroad – in Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa – could retreat, a collective memory of Greenfields and swooping glens?

~ Charles Emmerson

Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a Yellow Peril. Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order of the Western nations as an equal, forever grouped with the countries of the East among which she felt herself superior, and respected fully by neither group?

~ Charles Emmerson

Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

~ Charles Emmerson