This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...loyalty to the monarch is an effective safeguard, but even sovereigns are compelled to pause when the "honor" of the army, in other words its sensitiveness, might be wounded, or when it is certain that the corporation, as a whole, disapproves a particular line of policy. "The army" occupies a great space in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...loyalty to the monarch is an effective safeguard, but even sovereigns are compelled to pause when the "honor" of the army, in other words its sensitiveness, might be wounded, or when it is certain that the corporation, as a whole, disapproves a particular line of policy. "The army" occupies a great space in the thoughts of cabinets even now, and some day it may become a question whether cabinets are to rule soldiers or the soldiers are to rule cabinets. That was very nearly the issue presented in the Dreyfus case, and though in the end the statesmen, aided by the traditionary respect for law, were able to claim the victory, they were for a time in acute danger, and knew it. If France had possessed a general with a great record who agreed with the staff, the statesmen might have been defeated, and a law passed making criticism of a military decision an act indistinguishable from treason. Fortunately, no such man appeared, and the republic therefore stands; but no one doubts that it is still at the mercy of the army, which may remain "the great silent one," as it has been called, but also may not. What is certain is that, if the civil power abdicates its supremacy, the army will not long remain silent, and it is therefore because it has not abdicated that we congratulate France upon the decision of the Court of Cassation. Upon that decision itself so much has been said that it is unnecessary for us to say anything except that it appears to be perfectly legal in essence, that it is dignified in form, and that its abstract justice is beyond question inasmuch as it secures to an accused man a fair trial by those whom he acknowledges to be his proper judges. Reprintedfrom "India " of June 2,1899. THE CONDITION OF INDIA. ADDRESS BY MR. DADABHAI NAOROJI, ...
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