South Africa Conciliation Committee
The South Africa Conciliation Committee was a British
The committee was formed in 1899 in response to the outbreak of the war, for the "dissemination of accurate information", and to seek an early "peaceable settlement between this country and the
Founded by
The 1900 general election was generally considered a "khaki election", and candidates such as Bright and Lawson, who were identified as "anti war", were heavily defeated.[7] Against this background the Committee drew considerable public opposition to its campaigning, particularly when it organised a women's demonstration against the war in the same year.[5] However, the antagonism was not as strong as that provoked by the Stop the War Committee, with its religiously inspired utopian approach.[8]
The Conciliation Committee's distinctive role was seen by The Spectator as providing authentic information about the war.[9] Emily Hobhouse visited South Africa in 1900–1; her 1901 report on the concentration camps led to the Fawcett Commission, which formally confirmed her findings.[2]
The South African branch of the Conciliation Committee was founded in Cape Town in early 1900, under the chairmanship of prominent parliamentarian
References
Notes
- ^ a b "South Africa Conciliation Committee". The Times. 17 January 1900. p. 10.
- ^ a b c Brown (2003), p. 179.
- ^ Davey (1978), p. 220.
- ISBN 978-0-620-39432-1
- ^ a b c Howe & Morgan (2006), p. 239.
- ^ John Vickers, John Clifford Archived 2007-12-30 at the Wayback Machine, in A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland, online at Spartacus Educational
- ^ "England And Wales". The Times. 27 September 1900. p. 10.
- ^ Lowry (2000), p. 258.
- ^ "The Recklessness of the Peace Party". The Spectator. 2 March 1901. Retrieved 21 July 2011 – via Google Books.
a body whose special raison d'etre is to supply authentic and truthful information in regard to the war
- ^ H.H. Hewison: Hedge of Wild Almonds. James Currey Publishers. 1989. p. 102.
Bibliography
- Brown, Heloise (2003). "The truest form of patriotism": pacifist feminism in Britain, 1870–1902. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6531-3.
- Davey, Arthur (1978). The British pro-Boers, 1877–1902. Tafelberg. ISBN 0-624-01200-X.
- Howe, Anthony; Morgan, Simon (2006). Rethinking nineteenth-century liberalism: Richard Cobden bicentenary essays. Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-5572-5.
- Lowry, Donal (2000). The South African War reappraised. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5825-2.