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156.
Thcro^ were considerable dtfferencan of opinion in the
Society. At the' beginning of March a memorial was
precontcd to the Co=ittoo which stated, "the A. S. S. are
anxious to improsmi upon Her Majesty's Government the
extreme importance of retaining for the resent the
control of the territory which lion between the Red Sea
littoral and the Valley of the t7iloo.. 14 But there wsa as
much disagreement that it had to be dropped.
also decided not to hold any public mootingc on the
Sudan slave trade,
(2)
Allen would personally
(1)
It was
have liked to have came out
in favour of retention of the Sudan, - he wrote of the
Govornmont "Was there ov®r' Aso cowardly a policy ?... wo are
fearfully anxious about Gordon, "
(3)
But he had to consider
the opinion of anti-interventionist ouppbrtorn such an
F. W. %tewrian,, the editor of the Friends who objected to the
occupation of Egypt and the Sudan. (k)
Allen in a letter
to Nownau, nu=©d up the difficulties of the anti-olavory
position, . "There are differences of opinion omonrot the
(1) E2 94, fioutes of meeting hold on 7th Harch 1884*
(2) if EHinutea of t o'oting hold 14th April 1884,
(3) L-3/4. Allen to Bitkar 8th Ir obruary 1884.
(4) Ibidy Allen to rtewrncn,