...and insisted that the proposition that things would right themselves if left alone was untenable. " The spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept...chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly on her Majesty's Government for redress, does steadily undermine the influence and reputation of Great...

...affects the honour and the interests of the Empire in no degree less than did the claims of those " thousands of British subjects kept permanently in...chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly for redress" in the summer of 1899. But while the South African ulcer is slowly but surely healing,...

...In a telegraphic despatch of 4th May 1899, Sir Alfred Milner summed up the position. He stated that the ,,spectacle of thousands of British subjects,...British Government within the Queen's dominions." After referring to the inflammatory doctrines preached by a section of the Press, he stated his view...

...essential it was that an earnest national effort should be made to set it right. In it he said : ' The case for intervention is overwhelming. The only...undermine the influence and reputation of Great Britain within the Queen's dominions. A section of the press, not in the Transvaal only, preaches openly and...

...intolerable," and that " the case in favour of intervention on their behalf was overwhelming," that " the spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept...British Government within the Queen's dominions." He further dismissed as " a wilful perversion of the truth" the attempt to represent the Uitlander...

...before the raid, and the Transvaal was on the verge of revolution. The effect of the raid has heen to give the policy of leaving things alone a new lease...permanently in the position of helots, constantly chafmg under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly to her Majesty's Government for redress, does...

...and insisted that the proposition that things would right themselves if left alone was untenable. " The spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept...chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly on her Majesty's Government for redress, does steadily undermine the influence and reputation of Great...

...tranquillity or adequate progress is possible in South Africa. The spectacle of thousands of British subject s kept permanently in the position of helots, constantly...under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly to the British Government for redress was undermining the influence and repu tation of the British Government...

...Her Majesty's Government, using extravagant words without any adequate substratum of fact, such as " the spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept permanently in the position of helots," and recklessly accusing the Cape; Dutch of disloyalty, they might well feel that he was not a man to...

...how essential it was that an earnest national effort should be made to set it right. In it he said: ' The case for intervention is overwhelming. The only...undermine the influence and reputation of Great Britain within the Queen's dominions. A section of the press, not in the Transvaal only, preaches openly and...