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altered when reeolutionc not sent to the Colonial Office
are also taken into account. Opinion expressed in the
resolutions can be most satisfactorily dibidod into
anti-war and pro-Govornoent. ' Pro-Boer would be a misnomer
since many of the anti-war revolutions sympathised with
the Uitlandera; nor were all anti-war expressions of
opinion necessarily anti-Iinperigliet. Many of the pro-
4ovornmont resolutions were nothing more than votes of
confidence in the Ministry, Chamberlain or Milne
Of thb total resolutions three hundred and thirty were
pro-Government and two hundred and fifty-four anti-war.
But one hundred and forty of the
. ro-Government
resolutions were dated 12th October and after,. after
war had broken out; one four anti-war resolutions were
cent after 12th October. The anti-war resolutions
in fact began to fall off from 9th October, the date
of the Door ultimatum. Before the outbreak of war then,
the totals were one hundred and ninety pro-Government
resolutions and two hundred and fifty anti-war
(1) References to roeolutione refer to the two C. O, files
417/277/778 ubero the revolutions co rrarranged in
chronological orders . fil 417/278 contains reaolutiona
from 5th October onwards.
(2) ©ne of the resolutionni from a break away Croup of the I, A. F, 4 ,
wan so ambiguous that it had not been included in the break-
down, For a table of reeo
. utionc coo Appendix 1.
.
(1)
(2)