Supposing there be a Continental Crisis or some occasion on which the friendship of this country is of importance to Germany, it will not be forgotten if Germany has not treated one of our colonies as we consider it ought to have been treated.

I regard 25% control of the tax base as not being independence in any meaningful sense, whereas I regard 99% control as meaningful independence and therefore worth the sacrifice in sovereignty that is inevitably made to achieve objectives such as peace, environmental protection and having solidarity when we face a Continental Crisis.