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of the Liberal leoderohip on Arabi; » they werd not wholly
out of stop with the leadership in 1885, in their sympathy,
with the Flahdicte, since Gladstone had resisted pressure
for oven a Gordon relief expedition for some titan.
ironconfornists diatinguichod between acceptable and non-
acceptable 7nporialien; the Sudan came into the latter
category, while Egypt had belonged to the former. In 1885
Choshiro and Went Lancashire faptiat Churches * while
urging the withdrawal of troops from the Sudan, supported
the Government policy against Russia; it was logitiaate
to protect "our Indian Z pir&" but wrong to take over
now territorien in Central Africa. M
The 11oL1conformint view was essentially a moralistic one,
full of antipathy to aggression abroad And meddling in
the attairc of other n. ationo. It Wü a classic roatateEont
of the Midlothian case against the Conservative Government*
As one Nonconformist minister put it, - "2 adhere right
throuch to peace$ non-Intervontions the independence of
pooplen and the oinfulneco of mercenary
bloodshed, " (2)
Expansion in tropical Africa conflicted with u 'pacific
*cral cads.
C'fi 'atü, 78/38 9, Egypt, domo+c t1G and Vºaritau t March 1883.
(2) !
cho* 6th August 1882,
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