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area as far as British interests were concerned, but
diverged in thinking that national interests wore not
endangered by the Nationalist rebellion. He had no
sympathy for Arabi however,
» "I am not convinced by
Blunt. But 1 think him and hie party to be certainly not
worse than other Egyptian statesmen and p¬xrties... But I
totally decline to lift a finger for him$ or to urge any
Englishman to do no. I can for leaving him and Tewfik to
cattle it, sending gunboats and marines if needful to
guard the Canal, and offering asylum to British residents
who wish to fly. "
(1)
He agreed with the view hold by
coat opponents of the wart that intervention wan proposed
solely in the interests of the bondholdern, - "High
interests of state are the pretext for intervention. But
the true object is to got the gamblers$ seven percent paid
a little longer. '
(x)
In this last view he was supported by the Echo
which stated "though strenuous efforts have been made to
show that the war is not a bondholders war,, 'theco efforts
have not been aucceneful, " (3)
(1) Ibid.
(2) Ibid.
(3)
.,, ß, 28th July 1882.
Oppone*t of the war related
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