The South-African crisis - pagina 53

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

49

CRISIS.

of government, subject to reservations with reference

and on

to certain specified matters'^',

Chamberlain dechxred

Oct. 19tiil899 Mr.

"Surely no one has ever argued

:

Suzerainty was otherwise than defined by the articles of the

Convention

the definition suzerainty

Lord Kimberley's

.

question

in

upon the

.

.

we always

accepted"

i).

definition

one depending exclusively

is

As

stipulations of the Convention.

'name of Suzerainty, Sir Alfred Milner

for the

admitted that

"a question of etymology rather than of politics"

is

And Mr. Chamberlain went €all it

it

2)

in his speech of Oct. 19*^ 1899

farther and declared: "I do not care a brass

still

button

is

Hence the only

of those words

which

Abracadabra

When

substance".

"specified matters"

you

if

like,

the

in

you choose.

You may

provided you keep the

Convention

were restricted to

of

1884 the

article 4,

Lord

House of Lords that things remained in statu quo and that if the name suzerainty had beenommitted "we have kept the substance of it 3)". Derby declared

in

the

proved then that in 1881

It is clearly

\h%'-'- substance

of the suzerainty" was included and expressed in the stipulations of the divers articles of the Convention of

that year, and that

it

passed unaltered, though condensed

into the single article 4, in the Convention of 1884, that is

to say, that

all treaties

it

now

consists

made by

in the veto of England

upon

the Transvaal with foreign powers.

But the government of the Transvaal having declared on several occasions and in the most solemn manner 1)

Acts of I'arliament,

2)

Blue Book,

^)

Acts of Parliament p

c.

950,

p. '278. 7,

p.

6.

'^77,

a.

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