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nevertheless, thought that opinion was unanimous , in favour
of retention.
Charles Dilke
(I)
Another Liberal attack on the Imperialists was made by
(2)
in the February 1893 issue of the'
Fortnipttly Review. He declared that commercial benefits
would not compensate for money spout in building the
railway and lighting the Arabs, denied that there wan
auch slave raiding in Ugandasand inveighed against
military protection for minsionarie+a. Thus Dilke, who had
favoured the invasion of Egypt in 1882, and whose works
were regarded an a statement of colonial Ivperialiem, was
in fact opposed to the expansion of British control in
Africa. Like Lawson he thought that the preen was
almost unanim3un of retention, and "the only literature
which any one has had the chance of reading has been in
favour of the forward policy. There exiots no other. " But
he also pointed out that the audiences at Uganda meetings
wore largely middle cleaaq and concluded that while an
(1)
J bid,
(2) Dilke after the Crawford divorce scandel in 18854.5, lost
his chance to become a member of the Liberal Cabinet.
In 1692 he was rotunrod as the H. P. for Forest of Dean.
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