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country-were opposed to war.... groat numbers who approved
or acquiecced# would have been determined opponents but for
two thingct they did not know how far Arabi was accepted as the
leader of a real national movement to secure calf-government
in Egypt, or how far ho . was a more military adventurers
aiming to establish & military deapoticm. " (1'
Extreme Iodicals and Socialists expressed the
strongest opposition to the Government. They discounted
strategic and philanthropic motives for intervention which
they attributed to the direct self-interest of financial
opoculators$ especially the Egyptian bondboldera. The Labour
Emancipation Lemguo (one of the firnt Socialist organisations
to develop in the 18C0'a which operated in file End), protested
in 18&4 "against the continued onploynont of British troops
and the expenditure of the tax producers' money in the
interests of the bcndholderc. " (2)
The Manhood Suffrage
Leagues in 188,5 thought "the present war in the Soudan ie an
outra4o on the liberty of the Soudaaeae Africann... in the
interests of Jewish and other bondholders. " (3)
Expansion
in Africa was firmly related to the economic interests of
(1) mid,, p. 726.
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(2) p. ©. L 710, Egypt, domootic and variouu,, 23rd February
-12th March 1884, rcoolution of 3rd }3arch 1884.
(3) D nc r t, 14th Fobruary 1885.