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Macdonald and Sydney Oliver dacpprately against its while
jidnty occupies a middle position, - thinks that better
x2anaCement 2ijht have prevented its but that now it hoc
begun, recrinibatinn is useless, and that wo aunt face
the fact that henceforth theTranovani mnd the Grange
Free State cruet be within the British-Empire. "
meeting in December 1899 a resolution condemning the
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war was narrowly defeated. A postal referendum in February
to decide whether an official stotonant should be node
on the war resulted in n zojority against a ctatoceat;
of eigth hundred members only four hundred and covouty
six voted, - two hundred und fifty nine against a
pronouncement and two hundred and coventoon in favour.
Macdonald and thirteen other mebbern ro iCned including
J t1', Breen g George Barnass r. Curran $ Walter Grano, S. G.
floboon and 2-irs. Panlthurat,
Georen Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb promoted the idea
Of national efficiency - rofori of education, factory
oondttiona and the poor law by the state* This of course
1i Boatrico vulobb, Our 'artnornhip. p. 4$8,
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