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When Helen Rogers Reid, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Churchill at a White House dinner about British colonisation and the fate of the Indians, touching on the then much-discussed question of Indian independence, he replied:
- Which Indians do you mean? Those whose population has grown considerably under the British Empire, or the native Americans, who have now all but died out? Yet when Churchill's stronger remarks about the peoples colonised by Britain are quoted, such as the comparison of the inhabitants of India
