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Socibli stiji Lib.. Lieb Coý. oi, eration ntzd tlonconforniatn,
If the Liberale were equivocal there was little
doubt in thö zainda of crntemporcriec that cost of the
organised Socialist and working class bodies were
opposed to the war, Deatrico Webb admitted "...
Leonard Courtney and John Morley are acclaimed as the only
honest politicians by the rocognined Labour leaders who
have one and all Cone pro-Boer. The Fabian Society it
nuat be admitted is completely out of its the
majority believing in the inevitability of the war
whilet the minority regard the majority an being
the worst kind of traitors. "'")
Schreiner remarked on the high level of
working class participation in pence meetingo, "- hin
typical audience was composed of the better class of
(1) Beatrice Webb Our Pnrtriershtpas London 1948, p, 200.
For an analyaio of Socialist opinion and the Fabian
e ].. t see alco F* noraloyt Tho wartcinr clan"can rind
they Door t rar.