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X53.
protest against any appeal to the sword to settle
our differences with the Transvaal until after the
principle of arbitration has been tried and found
%nnting, to (1)
This indirectly conceded that Dritich
supremacy could be achieved peacefully by the Uitlandere
swamping the Transvaal with numbers and wealth. It
could not be described as pro-Boor and it showed the
impact of the Hague peace conference by its appeal to
arbitration.
There are thirty-two resolutions from anti-war
public mootinCs in the Colonial Office files, and an
additional twenty appear in the press. There are also
instances of eleven antiwar mcotinro broken up before
the beginning of the war. FortyeiCht pro-Govprn®ent
meetings sent resolutions to the Colonial Officq$ These
were often prompted by Conoorvativo Associations or the
I. S. A, A# and are a feature of the early anti-Boor
campaign in June, July and August. The anti-war r ettingo
did not get under way till Septembers
Nino mootingn in London were successfully hold in
1) I,
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30th Zojtember 1899.