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5'3"
and Frederick Sessions of Olouoonter ran the 8. T. W. C
there.
A minority of Friondo held that the war was justifiable.
Thin attitude was said to be morO prevalent among the
younger
Quakers,
(1)
and it also appeared most strongly
in the north east of tngland. At a Newccntlo on Tyne
meeting in November 1900 a lecture against the war by
Ellen
Robinson
provoked a good deal of oppociti. on and
Joshuna Rowntreo who wan about `to depart on a visit to
South Africa wan denounced an a pro-Boar.
(2)
J. Wilhelm
Bowntree wrote from Yorkshire on the attitude of a Friend
who 'expressed it no his conviction .. that "the war was
needed to show Europe that we bad come fight loft in us yeti s
and another official friend maintained in conversation that
the Boom donerved a good thraahinC. "
(3)
John
Bellows a Olouceotorehire Quaker published a pambhlet
stating that although all war musst be condonneq yet
as far as possible Britain waa in the right in the
Transvaal war.
(4)
(1) Ibid. 16th February 1900.
(2) I. J. Wiloon flus t1 D. 72121 Spence Watson to %iiloon
23rd tiovarabor1900,
(3) Friend,
r 26th January 1900.
(4) John Bellows, The truth about the T, 6ronrjn,
jz l yvvltr o
Gloucester 1900.