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they were not helping to oppress thoco Soudan people. "
There was a feeling by the end of March that a good
deal of opinion was riobilicing against the Sudan campaign.
On 20th March, Reginald Brett wrote to Wolsoley, t'... tho
general sentiment here io critically hostile to the further
advance of our force. "
(2)
By 17th April the opposition
had increasedi - "The feeling in this country ...
is Co
strongly opposed to this Soudan War, that the Government
would not have been able to carry it through.. "
I inintera had received resolutions against the warr$ and
M. N. reported atronc objections from their conatituenciea.
The anti-war groupinGe included moot Liberals and
Radicals who approved of social reforms at home. There
were three pivots of the anti-Imperialist stand in relation
to Egypt and the Sudan, - it was immoral, it was un-Liberal
and it distracted attention from social reform at home.
The Salford Weekly ttewn claimed to oxpreen the view of the
wr
"Provincial Radical". M "Why should ito be upending all this
money and nacrificing all these lives for the sake of
(1) Ibid, 7th March 9F85.
(2) Reginald Brett, On it1 ppa. 109-110.
(3) Ybid
p. 113.
(4) Gladstone IISS, AUDI,
ý44 * letter book 1883-5!
Gladstone to Dilke 16tE h February 1885"
(3)
(1)