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Imperial implications of the issue were thus often
ignored, Some resolutions however were more enterprising
ouch as that from Billericay Conservative and Liberal
Accociation# which hoped that "the British Empire shall
extend in the future from the Cape to the Zambeci. $'
There was small mention of the rights of the
native races in any of the resolutions* The anti-war
reaoiutiona. emphaniaed the affinity of the two white
races A large number of these resolutions referred
to the danger of permanent racial hatred in the event
of war Tho London United Methodist 'roe Churches were
against war with a MlChrictian Froteatant people" and
the Society of Friends in North Oxfordshire pointed to
the danger of "permanently alienating a people of the
some race and faith nn ouraolvoa""
The anti-war rosolutions included four fron
Town Councils, two in Ireland and two in London
- Went
Bars and %Jalthnzaatwo, two fror Temperance Societies, one
from hackney Board of Guardians and a petitiono niGnod
by the inhabitants of Kentish Town.
Peace rooolutiono contained a variety of nttitudeo,
-" that the Transvaal was independent, suzerainty having