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tempor of the co sottelty of England, I should say that thoür
fooling towards the Egyptian, policy Sind action is one of
supreme disgust, and nothing but the respect they tool for
Pre Gladstone would have tolerated it in their minds for an
instant, '" (1)
As Thomas Burt put it' ",, they had great faith
in trr. Gladstone and his colleagues* They knew that the Liberal
Government had made extradordinary efforts to do right and to
maintain peace in other parts of the world, and they could not
believe that a finietry which had given ouch unequivocal
evidence that it was peaceful und unaggreaoive on one continent
would be likely to rush into a needless and unavoidable war on
another. "
(2)
There was an alcoot pathetic faith in
ßladstonolo judgcmout, w J. C. Rogers wrote ".. I put trust in
a Cabinet of which tor. Gladstone was the chief and in which
: r. Bright Uraa a loading n®nbor...! might not like, did not
likog the occupation of Egypt% but i had sufficient confidence
in 1-fr. Gladstone to bo iave that ho would nevor have boon
.
a
(3)
party to it had any other course, been open. " Even Herbert
Gladstonalo Loads oarroopondent could not belieVo "that tho
(1) The Timou. 13th February 1883.
(2) Fortni&htly RA
view, August 1882, Thomas Burt, "Working
Non and tho war*"
{3) Nineteenth Century! July 1898, ppri. 30-4.5g J. G. Rogoro,
"kire ladstono
and the Nonconformists"