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French Imperiuliam= in a struggle between two Imperia1isma
French and British, Radicals would tend to take the
British aide. But support for British claims of course
meant accepting Egypt and the Sudan an parts of the
Empire# and a further erosion of anti4Imperialinm.
Blunt saw Fashoda an a further turning point in the
attitudes of Liberals towards Imperialism, "I vonturo to
affirm that its unqueationine acceptance and justification
by the whole free English nation, marke the deed an a
turning point in our chcractor# which eopnratca our way
of looking at things, rigth or wrong, for over from that
of our fathers, "
(1)
The change in Liberal attitudes
was recorded by F. A. Channing no advanced ßladatonian
radical, - "With die pricing of Gladstone fron politics 9
the old inspirations and the old onthusiac; oN the glowing
devotion to ido la!. panned too. In their place diointe ratinG
forces of distrust jealousy, aniuocity, spread the
poisonous atraoaphore of misrepresentation and intrigue#
The masterful spirit of Liberal Imperialism sprang to the
fore, noble in some of its aspirations and sympathies, but
(1) Quoted in Poni. tivi, t R views October 1898