In favour of the British role?
Who?
I said that the government failed.
Some Victorians, like Trevellyan, believed like Scrooge and Malthus that famine would decrease the surplus population. No one now would subscribe to such a philosophy. Even then Dickens made Scrooge an anti hero for having such an opinion.
Who would not argue that the government could and should have done more?
(Maybe Teribus)