The Rt. Hon. J. Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that it was impossible to think of a war with the Transvaal for the purpose of remedyingthe grievaucesof theOutlanders, and that a war was only conceivable in the event of the Transvaal's deliberately breaking the Convention.
He said that the first object of the British policy was to preserve the supremacy of Great Britain, and the second to establish a union between the British and Dutch in South Aftica.
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