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Speech to the National Conference on the Eastern Question in St. James's Hall, London, protesting against a war for Turkey against Russia after the Bulgarian atrocities (8 December 1876), quoted in The Times (16 December 1876), p. 8. Freeman was quoted as saying "Perish India" by Stafford Northcote on 13 December in a speech in Devon (The Times, 14 December 1876, p. 8). H. H. Asquith said that: "In the condensed form, “Perish India”, Freeman's phrase, for a long time did service on Tory platforms as a convenient summary of Liberal foreign policy" (Fifty Years of British Parliament, Volume Two (1926), p. 264.) (en) |
