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clans power who flicht be expected to tend for herself.
There was however an equal certainty in 1898 and 1899
that Britain would be victorious in any war on which
ehe embarked. To some extent the opposition to the
procpoct of a South African War implied an attempt to
set back on some of the old anti-Imperialist linos.
But even the anti-war party in 1899 had absorbed a
good many Imperial attitudes. Only a section of them
could be termed anti-Imperialist. The rent were merely
differentiated by thinking that Imperial interests did
not justify a war.