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But not much was mudo in the country as a whole, of the
plight of the Uitlanders, which wary to play an important
role in the pro- Hoer War agitation. There was the
uncomfortable anomaly that the mina-owners' wore making
large profits and were not eager to zoo the Transvaal become
part of the British. Empire,
There seems to have been little Liberal agitation against
the Government'a handling of. tho. situation. Chamberlain's
complicity in the Raid could only be guessed at of course,
and the Government officially had condemned the Raid Liberals
were possibly torn between indignation at the German
intervention into a specifically British affair# and the
hope that the public enquiry into the Raid would deal
satisfactority with Rhodes, The House of
Commons South
Africa Committee of investigation was not operating till
January 1897" Although it included Uarcourt 1 'abouchoro
and Campbell-hannerrnan, its conclusions, almost unanimously
agreed, toi were disappointing for Radicals, Chamberlain was
cxonoratod and Rhoe a though censured, nuffore4 no punishment*
The Liberal Party itself woo torn by loudcrahip quarrels.
on Gladstono's renicnation in Zjarch 1594, Romebory had
nuccecded to the leadership; this naant that an Impcriulist