The South-African crisis - pagina 55

CRISIS.

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Thus he writes:

"The cardinal

THE SOUTH- AFRICAN

dependenvi/.

(jeimral

for me....

fact

is

supremacy, predominance, preponde-

what you will O-" 'i'his idea of "paramount power" haunts him he washes to paramountcy,

rance,

call

it

;

forcibly

introduce

defined

as

in

it

under the label of "suzerainty''

1881, and he has pretended that from

time the Transvaal was compelled to recognise

that

Scarcely had the

suzerainty in a general sense.

the

Transvaal

given a

sign

when

of resistence

the regi-

ments at Aldershot received the order to embark. To these ridiculous pretentions the Boers smartly replied in the sound and crushing defence prepared

by

Dr. Leyds. In Europe, in America, even in Africa, all

who

speak with authority on international law have

come forward

en masse to give thQ coup de^r dee

Chamberlain and

his

rodomontades.

I cite

ioMx.

M. Arthur

Desjardins, of the Institute of France; Professor Westlake, of the University of Cambridge; Professor

Vlugt, of the University of Ley den

University of Bordeaux

;

;

Yan

der

M. Despagnet, of the

Professor de

Louter of the

University of Utrecht; Dr. Whiteley, in the American

Forum Dr. Farelley ;

ment

of the Cape, etc.

To

of the Secretary for the Colonies,

presented

himself.

On

sustain the argu-

no

specialist has

the contrary thej^ have

made

of his theory "du double preambule", as if Derby himself had not "knocked the teeth out of the argument" when he remitted his proposal to

fun

fine

Lord

Mr. Kruger.

It is appropriate to recall the fact that

the Cape Government in

')

Acts of Parliament, p. 277a.

its

dispatch of Feb. 27^iil884

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