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of-the -road Campbell-Bannerman an leader in 1898. Imperialism
had pervaded all layers of the Party by the end of the
century. The key note of the Liberal Party was confusion;
not oven indignation at the Turkish massacre of the
Armenians in 1696, could provide a clear call to action,
The moral fervour of the Bulgarian atrocities agitation
was not repeated on anything like the same scale.
Ixperialinn woo confirmed and consolidated by
the Diamond Jubilee of June 1897. There were two facets
which differentiated this from the Jubilee of ton years
before,
- an the Friends quarterly
lEximiner
noticed, - "The
dost obvious feature of the public display was the show of
force, naval and military. "
(1)
Secondly "What was now
what touched the heart of the people thronging the streute
won the spectacle of the dotachmente drawn from the
uttermost ands of the earth. "
(2)
The Jubilee procession
on 22nd Juno$ included Indiana$ Ceylonoco, Cypriots,
Dyaka from Burma and Hausa from Nigeria. The Daily Mail
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Dow the celebrations as essentially an Imperial chow,
"The very etrooto of London cry out with imporialicm,
(1) July 1897.
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(2) Henry Lucy, A_ Diary of the Unionint Parlinment 1895-1 0d
Landon 1901, p. 160,