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by ttueen Victoria's ungrammatical open telegram to
Gladstone$ "Those news from Khartoum are frightful, and
to think that all this might have been prevented and teeny
precious lives saved by earlier action in too fearful. "
In the music ballst the initials G. Q. M. - Grand Old Han, were
reversed to read U. O. G. - Murderer of Gordon,
as put by Stanley Leighton, M. P. for North Shropshire$
became "Gordon or Gladstone. "
(3)
(2)
"We must stand on
(1)
The idsue
Gordon's side or olle on Mr. Gladstone's nido,. To vote for
Gladstone will be to sanction the desertion of
Gordon. Will
the English people pronounce so infamous a verdict and thus
accept responsibility for the basest dead of modern
times.,,
(4)
Tho anti-Gordon reaction is sum mod up in two
pamphlets by J. Hirst lollowell, e Congregational minister,
and Annie Beeant a freethinker. Socularictn naturally
felt come aversion to ".. the impossible image of hybrid
heroism$ oaintliness$ 3t. 14ichael-and-the-Drngoniem, and
pietism that ban been hold up...
i1) P. Flag nus, Wit, , ý" 3z/
(2) IIbtd, p 3ý2,
" (5)
Contradictiona could
t3) National Review1 August 1$x'5, p. 725-33% Stanley Leighton,
"Uorr on or Gludatona? "
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x,..
b, "
(5) Annie Besant, Op cit,
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