Frankly he liked the Japanese. The reasons they gave very often for doing things were quite unintelligible, and they might have no conscience, but they did stand by those who stood by them ... Japan, on the whole, had been faithful to her obligations.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Frankly he liked the Japanese. The reasons they gave very often for doing things were quite unintelligible, and they might have no conscience, but they did stand by those who stood by them ... Japan, on the whole, had been faithful to her obligations." in the context of "David Lloyd George, remarks to the Cabinet on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (30 May 1921), quoted in Don Dignan, New Perspectives on British Far Eastern Policy 1913–19 (1969), p. 269" to mean that wisdom is timeless.