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that meetings would not be broken up, - he did not
speak for Battersea ST. W, C ti11 May.
Labouchere, J. E. E11iQ, Lawao»w Channing'nnd john
Brunner complete the list of anti-war t#. Po+ They were
a mixture of Lib-Labo from London and the north-cast
(Henry Broadhurst was the only LibrLab who take not
take an active anti-war stand), and the more old-fashioned
radicals, - Labouchero Channing. Haddicon and Stanhope
f6r instance were diroctly at odds with Labour interottn.
Wilaon! Ellin and Brunner were industrial entrepreneurs
who had little in common with Labour groupu. Lawson
especially woo out dated in hic concern for temperance
reform. A large section of the anti-Imperialiato
expressed the out modod values of mid-century Liberalism,
Nonconformity and individualism. Only the Lib-Labe and
Lloyd aeorge embraced more modern'idono on the role of
the statu and social reform. The alliance between the
Liberals and Socialists during the Doer liar n doomed to
be unsatiefactory
The anti-war Group in Porlitrtent woo nmall but it
also failed to make much impact in the constituencies*