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could cryetallico. By the time Uganda wes annexed in 18941
there had been a considerable interim periods during which
a number of Liberals, no doubt, became accustomed to the
idea. But even then the ailenee of the anti-Imporialisto
especially the Nonconformists is not wholly explained away.
It coons likely that U anda marks one stage in the decline
of the anti-Imperialism which had been so a ticablo in 18859
Anti-Imperialism seems to have been losing grounds a suggestion
which becomes more explicable in the light of the non.
opposition to Imperialism in the Faehoda incident of 1898.
agitation 9-
There are two important features of the 1892
firstly the pxoerure groups though well-
organised and arced with impeccable arguments, did not
succeed in nobiliniuS more than a small section of the
population for retention The agitation was never really
popular or widely diffused and the mass of the population
remained uninterested. Secondly* the anti"Imperialint and
Liberal
paralysis in the face of organised Imperialism.
(1) Bee below p. 1't8'Cf aec,.
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