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concerned over the fate of the natives. From 1883 John 14ackenzio
of the London I4iscionary Society agitated for direct Imperial
control of Bechuanaland as an alternative to annexation by the
Cape Colony. A South Africa Committee was formed whose secretaries
were 11.0. Arnold Forster and A. ii. Loring and which included
besides representatives of humanitarian groupa,, both Liberals such
as T. F. Buxton, Sidney Buxton, Chamberlain and Albert Croy, and
Conservatives ouch an R. II. Fowler U. P. and the Earl of
Shaftesbury,
W
Liberals, even those who regarded themselves
an anti-Imperialiot, preferred responsible control by Imperial
administrators (such as Lord Cramer in Egypt) to profiteering
chartered companies or hard-headed aolonialiete+
(2)
in return
Exeter hall won the aversion of colonials and company promoters.
The Committee opposed at first the granting of a charter to
Rhodesto British South Africa Company, in 1889, but some of the
Committee (such as Albert Grey who became a director of the
Company) favoured the Rhodes scheme and the opposition diaintogratit
ackan »ie is typo of humanitarian Imperialism was cnnti"colonialiut
and also anti-Boor (the Transvaal in 1864»5 was encroaching on
native lands) but wan also expansionist calling for a protectorate
over Bechuanaland and an extension of Imperial authority to the
Lamboci. The desire for expansion could be Just as groat among
i 1_, p. 401.
(2) LIAart of i: mniro, op cit 1 p. 341.
(3) W. D. Mackoazio 1öp.
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