It is noticeable that even in the worst possible circumstances, as in South Africa when he was making himself unpopular as the champion of the Indian community, he did not lack European friends.
It is worth mentioning that I had to venture out of my host's box (in which everyone but me seemed either to be called Orlando or to have a stately home) and drop into another one to meet him.
Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation.