Lord Milner's Work in South Africa: From Its Commencement in 1897 to the ...
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa: From Its Commencement in 1897 to the ...
W Basil William Basil Worsfold
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But of another he says : " Worked very hard all day; the usual interviews. It was very difficult to take one's mind off the absorb- ing subject of the ill success of our military operations." Mr. Balfour called the insolence of the ulti- matum "madness." But Lord Milner knew that it was no madness, but an assured belief in victory; a confidence founded upon long years of earnest preparation for war; upon the blood- ties of the most tenacious of European peoples ; upon a Nature that spread her w...ings over the rough children of the veld and menaced their enemies with the heat and glamour of her sun, with famine and drought and weariness, with all the hidden dangers that lurked in her glittering plains and rock-strewn uplands. It is not proposed to give any detailed account of the military operations which led, first, to the annexation of the Boer Republics, and then to the actual disarmament of the entire Dutch population of South Africa. The most that the plan of this work permits of is to present the broad outlines of the war in such a manner that the several Digitized by VjOOQIC 808 THE FALL OF THE REPUBLICS phases of the military conflict may be seen in true perspective, and the relationship between them and the administrative efforts of Lord Milner be correctly indicated.
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