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resolutions. The anti-war group was thus in a substantial
majority.
Thera were two main sources of Government support, the
Conservative Associations and Primrose League branches$
and meetings organised by the Imperial South African
Association fromed in 1896 "to uphold British supremacy
and to promote the interests of British subjects in
South Africa with full recognition of colonial self-
Sovernrent, it It in recorded as having hold overfour
hundred meetings in 1899, both before and after the
war started, and only a small part of its activity
appears in the Colonial Office files
sent round epealcora, some from South Africa
boon responsible for a printed resolution expressing
confidence in Milner which appeared at a number of
Conservative meetings early in the campaign,
(I)
The I. 3. A. A"
t and may have
In June sixteen out of nineteen revolutions were
pro-Government, most of them accounted for by a aeries
of meetings in Lancashire In July twelve out of twenty.
four resolutions were pro"Governmont. In August a number
(1) See Journnlof ModernIlintory, 19549 J. A. GDlbruith1
"The in
pBz phlot campaign tho Boor War. ""