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subjects kept permanently in the position of helotc1
constantly chafing under undoubted grievances and calling
vainly to Uer Nojoaty'o Government for rodreso. ".
"' (1)
was Iilner'e main contribution to this echcra®, though it
was not published till June.
The press began to take an interact in South
Africa with the Bloemfontein Conference between Milner
and Kruger which lasted from Slat Hay to 5th June when
nogotiutiono broke down» Resolutions sent to the
colonial office on South Africa began shortly after this
on 14th June. There were five hundred and eighty-
five resolutions altogether, but the bulk of them did not
appear till September* moat of the anti-war resolutions
in fact were sent when war wan almost inevitable.
fiho development of public opinion took place against
u background of complicated bargaining between Britain
and the Tranevaal, The immediate quarrel was over the
political and civil rithtn of Uitlunders working in the
Johannesburg goldfieldn" But the Government wan ultimately
(1) Quoted in Edgar Holte The Boor War* London 1958, p. 67,
(2) C`0» 417/277/278.