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is the peculiar characteristic of her (England's)
people. "
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There was also a scheme for opening up the Upper
Congo region to ivory trading, promoted by a Kr. J. T.
Wills in 1886, in which 'ox might also have been
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involved. Yet another plan wan comruoicatod to
Salisbury by Edward Dicey in 1896, -a group of "well-
known Egyptian capitalinte" with "long experience of
the Soudan trade" would apply to the Egyptian Qoverne®nt
for a concession to develop the Sudan.
All these plane were abortive. The most noticnble
development in relation to Egypt and the Sudan in the
yearn 1886 to 1896, was the gradual acceptance of the
occupation of Egypt by Liberale, M which prepared the
ground for the surprising Liberal agreement with the
reconquest of the Sudan, Only a few individuals like
Blunt, and the peace'societiee kept up any pressure for
the evacuation of Egypt, Egypt settled comfortably into
the position of a respectable dependency, M with a similar
t1) I idl p. 355.
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. S, I S: a. F4 Allen to Felkinf 19th 11ovcmber ISM
(3) 8aliabury MSS, Vol 99s Edward Dicoy to Salisbury 3rd July
1896,
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