But there is one thought which every white man (and In this connection it doesn’t matter twopence if he calls himself a socialist) thinks when he sees a black army marching past, “How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?” It was curious, really. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind, I had it, so had the other onlookers, so had the officers on their sweating chargers and the white N.C.O.’s marching in the ranks. It was a kind of secret which we all knew and were too clever to tell;
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