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illustrated by the case of Henry Brand Vincount tiapdon
who in 1880 "woe a ßladotonian Radical M. R. of the most
advanced non-intervention type.. " but in 1900 was arf; uiug
vehemently in favour of the wax.
(1)
Iii the game way
Henry Fowler a Wesleyan ilothodist and M. P. for Wolverhampton
aus declaring in 1900 that the war wan the culmination
of the Boor designs against the British Empiro,
- if the
Empire "should be in peril from etreea or storm it can
su ºon to äis defence a vast army of men of every clans
and creed and clime who are proud of their allegiance to
the one flag and the one throne. "
(2)
could hardly have been more xmperialiotic,
A Conservative M. P.
In direct contract to this some Liberals bemoaned
the passing of the old non-interventionist principles%-
"How vaot a loss of moral force has there been since
the death of Gladstone. If he had been in the field thin
war would not have been posmible.
a (3)
A cozinon attitude in Liborn1 nnnociationn wno
t1ý W. S. Blunt, Dia Vol 1t p. 460,
(2) Rt. Bono Sir Ucnry Fowler I. Y. P. Speech at the banquet to
service volunteers at Wolverhsipton Town Hall 16th February
19004 p. 16.
C3) Bryce FSS. box on South African War, letter from "A
Liboral" 13th December 1599.