The debates on the war were practically wound up with another great effective speech by Mr. Chamberlun, in the course which be frankly admitted his abare of the responsibility for the surrender after Majuba Hill and his acknowledgment that the policy adopted ly Mr. Gladstone's Government, of which he was a member, was a grave mistake. His defence, too, of what has been called the "new diplomacy," was very telling. He admits that in the course vf the negotiations he made a public speech warning President Kriiger and the Transvaal Government what would he thy effect of their stubbornness and procrastination; but there are plenty of precedents for such a warning, which was made in the interests not of war, but of peace. The new diplomacy is he contends, "straight" diplomacy. It is not based on the old principles that speech was given us to con-coal our thoughts, and that a diplomatist is one who "lies" abroad for the good of his country. Still it cannot be denied that Mr. Chamberlain has scarcely succeeded even yet in winning the entire confidence even of the Conservative Party, and there are many who will not say a word which might embarrass the Government at this juncture, but who yet believe that with another statesman at the Colonial Office our object might have been attained without a war.
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