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of England debating society, one from a commercial
travellers association, and one from a Middlesou Urban
District Council. There may have been one sample
resolution circulating, since three of the Cunservativo
resolutions in different parts of the country, p, ade an
almost Identical reference to "British intereF, ýa in the
White Nile territory. " But apart from this, there is no
evidence of any organised attempts to got r¬solutions
passed. Two-'gf. the resolutions followed lantern slides
on the Sudan. Onlyýtwo nontioned commerce$ - the Cardiff
branch of the co=ercial travellers ausociation appropriately
hoped that "a vast productive area will be restored to
civilization and cornprca. 'l
(1)
And Battersea Conservative
Association also roferred to be benefits of "civilization
and commerce. $' (2)
Civilization was a more popular
argument than conmorce ulono, but most of the rocolutione
gave the chief emphasis to the right of England and/or
Cgrpt to occupy the Sudan. Lyrington Countitutional
Club approved of the victory in the Sudan
(1) Ibii, resolution vent 26th October 1898,
(2) bid, resolution event 27th October 1898.