My Diaries, Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914
My Diaries, Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Brodrick admits the digging up of the Mahdi's body and the throw- ing it into the Nile, and they are bringing further questions about the mutilation, that is to say, about young Bill Gordon's having cut the head off to keep as a ' curio. ' The whole thing is revolting a piece of military revenge for the death of Gordon and the defeat of Wolseley and excused now on the absurd plea of its having been ' a necessity in view of the possibility of a fanatical revival. ' What makes the desecration wor...se is that Sir Herbert Stewart's grave had remained all these years untouched in the desert where he fell, but the Liberal front bench is ready to condone every horror, being more Jingo than the Jingoes. Feb. To the House of Commons for the Soudan 1899] Pierre Loti at Constantinople 387 debate which was led by Morley, ably and courageously. I heard Grey speak in good parliamentary style, but with- out eloquence, the Tories applauding him. [He had become Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs under Rosebery.
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