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Erjpt and the Egyptian bondholders ? '+ Cl)
The Edinburgh
anti-war group pointed out that the Government wac planning
a Sudan railway but could not lay railways or tolograph
lines to the iighlandno
(2)
There was a feeling that aggression abroad could not
be reconciled with Liberal roforz at boc2o' Wilfred Lawson
said at a Cockormouth meeting in 1884, it wan not true
Lib'ralian to shout for the uifranchisencnt of two million
people at home# and send their armies to slay millions of
people abroad. "
(3)
A true Liberal attitude would be
"to put an end to the policy of warlike meddling and bring
back a stable reign of poacofully minding our own affuirn. "
The aims of the Liberal anti-war section were aurmod up
by J allanson Picton I. I. P. ",.. what X want is a break with
the false and ruinous maxims of the vain Imperialism that
was the boast of the former Government and has been the
weakness of the present. "
(1) Sinlford Wek1r mown, 14th February 1885.
(5)
(2) äca +R 4th March 1885,
(3) Tho Ti. moA* 15th April 1884.
(i) 7`. A. i1A, t4nnthly Journal, March 188,5.
(5) Ibid Nay 1885.
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