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Opinion on this problem is roughly divided into those who

believe that in the course of time, when they are ready for it, the coloured sections of the British Empire will become self-governing units in the British World State, and those who think that ultimately the peoples of Asia and Africa subject to white control will, following the example of China, Japan, Persia, Afghanistan and Egypt, demand their independence, to be guaranteed by the League of Nations. The believers in the former solution are of the opinion that the British World State will apply to the coloured peoples, when they are ready for it, the ideals of free government which are embodied in the Dominion Constitutions. They point to the ever- increasing freedom which has been granted in the past few years to India and Burma.