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an oxpreasion of nntionalicm and hoatility to foreignere,
culminating in nggreenively m litnriotic otandn over
certain ieuuen, - notable the Sudan campaign of 1884,5!
Yaohoda in 1898 and the Boer War 1899-1900.
The stronCent opposition to expansion in Africa came
from Nonconformists and Gladatonian Radical or Gocialioto.
This did not always imply hostility towards all Empire
however; the Empire of the seif-governing colonion and
respectable dependencies was widely accepted by 1900, and
even expansion was not oppocod on principle no much as
on the merits of each individual case,
The intervention of the Liberal Government in Egypt
and the Sudan in 1882-5 helped to reconcilo a number of
Liberals to interference in Africa. There was a
noticable absence of opposition to the annexation of
Ug'?,
nd , and of the Sudan in 1898, Nonconformists and
Liberals made a strong stand against the impending Boor
war of 1899, but after war broke out the oppouition
disintegrated,
- Socialists and OIadstonian Nonconformists
had little in common apart from dislike of the war.
The ptSriod thug shown an erosion of Liberal anti-
Imperialism. Liberals who started in the full flush of