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To a generation of statesmen who lacked ready confidence in Britain\u0026#39;s position and were attempting to ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs in between these bouts of enthusiasm was felt no less likely to threaten coherent \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . The\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PR14-IA4","page_number":"xiv","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e is pre - eminently a matter about which the crowd not only should , but may be guided . Ever since Lord ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Council or of the effect of our wretched Party system on national affairs .... The existing Parliaments\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PR14-IA5","page_number":"xiv","snippet_text":"... policy within a democratic system of politics . At times in the past these questions had been taken up in criticism ... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e , in the concerns of the \u0026#39; official mind \u0026#39; such as strategy and defence , in ideas as to the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PR14-IA6","page_number":"xiv","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e , or to forget entirely anything calling itself \u0026#39; public opinion \u0026#39; . What is true is that men like Canning or ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e questions was not bridged , then it was impossible to plan ahead . This may to twentieth - century\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA23","page_number":"23","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e questions from being mishandled in the circus ring of party \u003cb\u003epolitics\u003c/b\u003e must be recognised for what they are an endeavour to solve the problem of conducting foreign \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e within a democratic system of \u003cb\u003epolitics\u003c/b\u003e . There was after\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA25","page_number":"25","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs which could be as much a threat to coherent \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e as any sudden upsurge of feeling . Of course , such an educative programme depended on the use of real examples ; - while some might be content simply to point out the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA26","page_number":"26","snippet_text":"... policy aims was thought capable of forcing more recalcitrant leaders in the direction desired by a few . If ... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . The occasion for this was the arrival of Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , and the issue\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA27","page_number":"27","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e to an absolute minimum ; alternatively , one might extend attempts to influence \u0026#39; public opinion \u0026#39; to their logical limits , to the point where they embraced the electorate as a whole . Chamberlain was a man with the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA28","page_number":"28","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolitics\u003c/b\u003e and the broad goals of political action , for assumptions arrived at early in his career frequently affected his handling of \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs after 1895. This is above all true in that his ideas about political behaviour and\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA32","page_number":"32","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . Their starting points were of course very different . Salisbury , the conservative aristocrat , wanted ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs . As he told Balfour , \u0026#39; I think a democratic government should be the strongest government from a\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA37","page_number":"37","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e equally evident in his response to other crises between 1880 and 1886 – his desire to get away from the drift ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs , he found cause for anything but satisfaction . \u0026#39; If the Board of Trade or Local Government\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA39","page_number":"39","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e and foreign \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e makers by a democratic system . That the Empire needed protection against the ignorant whims of the democracy and unscrupulous politicians was pretty clear , especially after the raising of the Home Rule\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA40","page_number":"40","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e or anything else . The fact that others concerned about the conduct of \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e in a democratic system were also coming to favour a grand propaganda campaign , brought him closer to an important current in upper\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA41","page_number":"41","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e , still not overtly connected , 35 under the new umbrella of his own \u0026#39; National Party \u0026#39; which he ... politics , one which should win an overwhelming majority , thus condemning all diehards , factions , and faddists\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA46","page_number":"46","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e were those embodied in Conservative legislation before 1892 , was on that score alone content to join a ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e expansion and development . The successful promotion of this was at least a possibility with the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA47","page_number":"47","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e expansion might endear him to at least some erstwhile critics , and by enhancing his personal standing make them regard his other schemes rather more benevolently . Now that Ireland was less prominent in British \u003cb\u003epolitics\u003c/b\u003e , his\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA50","page_number":"50","snippet_text":"... politics twenty years before , Chamberlain\u0026#39;s programme had broadened accordingly . Perhaps he remembered his ... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . Having remarked on the great importance of his speech in the Commons on \u0026#39; the development of our\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA51","page_number":"51","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . Given this broad intention , it was fortuitous that South Africa should have been re - emerging as an issue in British politics at this moment . It was not only in matters of timing that the South African question\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA55","page_number":"55","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e seemed to be required . The measure of the value of the line to the Colonies is not so much what it would yield in their hands as the injury it would be capable of doing them if controlled by others . From an \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e point of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA56","page_number":"56","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e position and illustrating how British concern for her South African interests was mounting . Salisbury\u0026#39;s ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . He confessed himself uneasy at the German attitude , and thought that the Kaiser was a young man to whom\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA64","page_number":"64","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e for the benefit of an electorate alarmingly ignorant of such matters ; obviously he had to do this in a way which would arouse lasting interest and carry conviction . \u0026#39; Public opinion \u0026#39; for Chamberlain was for all\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA65","page_number":"65","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e and the insistence on his own priorities , and slowly overcome the vagaries of the democracy which he and so ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs in the years 1895-9 . Having long before selected his cause , possessing after the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA67","page_number":"67","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e influence or control on behalf of any one of them , either in South Africa or elsewhere within the Empire ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . The importance of Chamberlain\u0026#39;s moves to give further breadth to the appeal of Empire can hardly be\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA68","page_number":"68","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . He had tried this in his efforts to move the Tory party towards social reform , and he now aimed to win sufficient support for his imperial notions to hold both political parties to a consistent \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . It\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA69","page_number":"69","snippet_text":"... policy and strength of national purpose , was being nurtured in relation to other questions . This was not the first time that there had developed a gap between the public language of \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e and the full range of policy\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA70","page_number":"70","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government in some measure with what finally ended as an outrageous attack on the Transvaal\u0026#39;s independence ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e from the time he reached office . At first this \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e was secretive , with Chamberlain using Rhodes as\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA71","page_number":"71","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e towards South Africa , British attempts to derive \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e advantage from the troubled situation on the Rand in 1895 can be seen to owe far more to the seriousness of developments in South Africa itself than to fresh ideas on the\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA73","page_number":"73","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government had had no connection . Such an occurrence , bringing an alienated Rhodes and his allies to ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e , pursued officially and unofficially since the late 1880s , of encircling the Republic and cutting it off\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA80","page_number":"80","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e convenience . Nevertheless , his actions in this , while questionable in a way that the transfer of ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e at this time . The main reason for this – and one which Chamberlain not unnaturally reckoned without - has been\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA81","page_number":"81","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e , and with the new Colonial Secretary\u0026#39;s awareness of the general conditions under which he had to operate his ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government from being practically excluded from an effective role in South African affairs , to\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA82","page_number":"82","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e in language that would be beyond cavil.\u0026#39;81 His second thought , resignation , is also no confession of guilt ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e involvement , and would have weakened the Conservative party at home . Chamberlain\u0026#39;s final decision\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA83","page_number":"83","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e in Dutch minds than Chamberlain\u0026#39;s resignation would have done . Yet this failure cannot provide ground for damning Chamberlain any more than can the misrepresentations which perpetuated suspicion as to the exact nature\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA88","page_number":"88","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . In an attempt to turn the disaster of the Raid to advantage , Chamberlain seized the opportunity to claim Imperial cognizance of the grievances of the Uitlanders . This was first done in a telegram to the High\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA90","page_number":"90","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e , these constitute to a large extent the substance of what follows . When Chamberlain sent his telegram on 4 January , in which he raised the issue of grievances for the first time , it seems that he believed in their\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA93","page_number":"93","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government . With Chamberlain learning that Rhodes intended to cite the state of Johannesburg and the ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e fitted in perfectly with Chamberlan\u0026#39;s earlier ideas , and his growing awareness of how carefully he was to be\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA94","page_number":"94","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e which could be used to catch the public\u0026#39;s imagination . IV IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE JAMESON RAID As far 94 THE ORIGINS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR."},{"page_id":"PA99","page_number":"99","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government of conflicts inside South Africa was to be welcomed . Intervention at every conceivable ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e of limiting the pretensions both of foreign powers and of the Republic by falling back on the assertion of its\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA100","page_number":"100","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e was developed to the full . 15 In consultation with the Foreign Office , the Colonial Office requested the ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e interests that the South African Republic should accede ; and for this reason , as well as because of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA101","page_number":"101","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e as \u0026#39; one of quiet acquisition aimed at undermining Great Britain\u0026#39;s right of pre - emption should Portugal ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government\u0026#39;s determination to observe the status quo and ensure observance of the Convention . 23 There\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA103","page_number":"103","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . 32 Balfour endorsed the idea of a municipality for the Rand , and saw justification in that \u0026#39; the action of my right hon . Friend in doing his best to introduce what is called the \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e factor into this controversy is not\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA104","page_number":"104","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . Here too , however , Balfour had provided a pointer to the future by his admission that grievances had brought the \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e factor back into the picture . Such had been the impact of Chamberlain\u0026#39;s general handling of the Raid\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA106","page_number":"106","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e for the benefit of these gentry and I entirely agree that we have no casus belli at present .... I do not ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government was involved with the Jameson fiasco , Rhodes , and the Chartered Company . This distrust was\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA107","page_number":"107","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e was to continue , using \u0026#39; every legitimate means , especially the pressure of public opinion in South Africa ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e relationship - especially if this was to become a closer one - meant that Chamberlain\u0026#39;s propaganda had\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA108","page_number":"108","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e ) South African Association was announced . Perhaps this in itself was illustrative of the success which Chamberlain\u0026#39;s approach and \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e had so far achieved , if one may go by its billing in The Times , for the Colonial\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA111","page_number":"111","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e is . \u0026#39;57 The press itself was inclined to agree . The Quarterly Review , commenting on the fears \u0026#39; that a ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e knowledge\u0026#39;.59 With time , the attitude towards what Chamberlain called his attempt \u0026#39; to diplomatise on\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA120","page_number":"120","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e quite clear as part of his energetic handling of \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs , and for the purpose of consolidating in his favour the party support which he felt he needed . The essence of these Parliamentary proceedings and publications\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA122","page_number":"122","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e of the Chartered Company . Yet if the Colonial Office were to do this , especially while the Matabele War was ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e point of view to give the British public yet another stick with which to beat the Chartered Company\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA140","page_number":"140","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e based on publicity strengthen the impression that the \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government would never be satisfied , would never let sleeping dogs lie , and so weaken simultaneously the chances of successful negotiation . Chamberlain was afraid\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA141","page_number":"141","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government intended to main- tain its conventional rights : and in South Africa where , according to Milner , such arbitration would be widely unpopular , such an omission would be construed as weak \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e . In public exchanges\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA145","page_number":"145","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e intervention to a minimum . Now , not being one to let the opening of parliament slip by without trying to ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e of lying low and being as conciliatory as possible , which Chamberlain now seemed at once both to\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA148","page_number":"148","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government would hang . Milner felt that such a local outburst of feeling as he hoped would occur over ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e depended on \u0026#39; the \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e outlook as a whole \u0026#39; , was a pure formality and in the circumstances , empty of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA150","page_number":"150","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e towards the Transvaal , it judged the speech to be of extreme importance and so preferred to wait until the ... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e and foreign \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e was not to follow this kind of outburst , but should be able to rely on extensive\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA151","page_number":"151","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e was not to be allowed to get out of hand thereby threatening the handling of the specific issue at the heart of Chamberlain\u0026#39;s propaganda . In the meantime , Chamberlain responded to Milner with an extremely stiff - toned\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA162","page_number":"162","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e intervention . By early 1898 , the generally sympathetic attitude of the \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Government towards grievances had been amply advertised . At the same time , its concern was to limit the scale of interference , a \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA164","page_number":"164","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e were equally important . It accorded with his own moves in 1896 to minimise the publicity given to foreign involvement in South Africa , and thus helped preserve the particular focus on South African affairs which\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA170","page_number":"170","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e became clearer . As time went on , Milner increasingly feared Dutch powers of organisation and survival , and ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e consolidationist all haste was necessary if the disintegrating forces inside and outside the Empire\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA171","page_number":"171","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs in South Africa ceased early in the summer of 1898. From then onwards the history of British \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e in South Africa is the tale of how Milner\u0026#39;s methods , with their emphasis on the short - term exploitation of public\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA180","page_number":"180","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Secretary at Cape Town ) , to interview \u0026#39; all the leading politicians and pressmen ... and to stamp on rose ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e towards South Africa . Few people can have escaped his attention as his diary shows . 19 Pressmen of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA199","page_number":"199","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e impotence was seen as \u0026#39; strong confirmation of Mr Chamberlain\u0026#39;s views in favour of speaking plainly even at ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e on the part of H.M.\u0026#39;s Government\u0026#39;.79 As far as a Blue Book was concerned , the members of the Colonial\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA213","page_number":"213","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicies\u003c/b\u003e was what they ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e in South Africa did not necessarily justify drastic means , in this case a possible war . They complicated their task still further by attempting to make many people think about Empire and \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA231","page_number":"231","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Govmt has had no \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e since the raid , for good or ill , it has just begun to try the franchise remedy ... \u0026amp; , if it sticks to it , must get more.74 Thus Milner\u0026#39;s \u0026#39; helots \u0026#39; despatch was for many people what his Graaff Reinet\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA237","page_number":"237","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e , despite a fundamental commitment to defend the \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e position , had long met nothing but setbacks . With the question of European rivalries still unsolved , success in direct confrontation with the Transvaal could only\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA241","page_number":"241","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e was shown by Cabinet and Foreign Office in their discussions of strategy and real politik . This however remained hidden from the - wider public gaze largely because of Foreign Office preconceptions THE PRELUDE TO WAR 241."},{"page_id":"PA259","page_number":"259","snippet_text":"... imperial questions would provide a wide body of opinion sufficient to ensure the continuation of a coherent \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . People would see the importance of the Empire and wish to preserve it . At the same time this groundswell of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA268","page_number":"268","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e affairs under Chamberlain , and their conduct under his mid - century predecessors . He was both praised ... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e remained largely unchanged . Only the diplomacy by which the ends were to be reached altered . The\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA269","page_number":"269","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e historian , not now by reason of the obvious congruence of \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e with popular passion , but rather because the influence of any public opinion - or , indeed , of domestic issues - was negligible . This argument for the lack of\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA272","page_number":"272","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e decisions ; the problems and circumstances of the day , together with the personal characteristics and ... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e and foreign affairs . Sir Stafford Northcote for example remained characteristically patrician . He told a\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA274","page_number":"274","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e and foreign \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e could be developed in a democratic system of \u003cb\u003epolitics\u003c/b\u003e . Involvement in this unprecedented debate , or at least a sharing of the preoccupations which gave rise to it , was something which united late\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA275","page_number":"275","snippet_text":"... politics on \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e . It was widely felt that the choice of alternatives was small , with the result that with Chamberlain in office secret diplomacy was largely abandoned ; the way in which imperial affairs were handled became\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA277","page_number":"277","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003ePolicy\u003c/b\u003e of Victorian England 1830-1902 ( Oxford , 1970 ) , 3 and passim ; A. P. Thornton , The \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Idea and Its Enemies ( 1959 ) ; Robinson and Gallagher , Africa and the Victorians ; G. Martin , \u0026#39; Empire federalism and \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA284","page_number":"284","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e under pressure from the Great Powers . 23 Chamberlain to Salisbury 4 Sept. 1895 , MSP . 24 Memo by G. V. Fiddes 11 Oct. 1895 , Af . ( S ) 508. Fiddes , a first - class clerk , joined Milner\u0026#39;s staff as \u003cb\u003eImperial\u003c/b\u003e Secretary in 1897\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA285","page_number":"285","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial\u003c/b\u003e authority for the protection of African interests in Bechuanaland . 55 Porter , JICH ( 1972 ) . 56 Generally on this point , A. N. Porter , \u0026#39; Iain Macleod , decolonization in Kenya , and tradition in British colonial \u003cb\u003epolicy\u003c/b\u003e\u0026nbsp;..."},{"page_id":"PA309","page_number":"309","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eimperial policy\u003c/b\u003e in the Transvaal Colony during the period of reconstruction 1900-1905 ( 1973 ) \u0026#39; The Transvaal labour crisis , 1901–6 \u0026#39; , JAH VII ( 3 ) ( 1967 ) , 481-94 - , \u0026#39; \u0026quot; Capitalist influence \u0026quot; and the Transvaal Government during\u0026nbsp;...","page_url":"https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=8NVRAQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA309\u0026vq=imperial+policy"},{"page_id":"PA312","page_number":"312","snippet_text":"... \u003cb\u003eImperial Policy\u003c/b\u003e and South Africa , 1902–1910 ( Oxford 1955 ) T. O. Ranger , \u0026#39; The last word on Cecil Rhodes ... Imperial problems in British Politics \u0026#39; , CHBE III ( Cambridge 1959 ) , 127-80 D. M. 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