1900] M ilncr's "Equal Justice" 351 



much emotion. . . . You say you wish they would stop the fighting. 

 Every one wishes it also, but we must get to Pretoria first, and be 

 able to get equal justice for all our people there, and for 

 which reason the war has been brought on England, and it 

 will be a very long business of years — so let us try and be 

 patient, and good will come out of it in the end. The spirit of wish- 

 ing to help is quite splendid everywhere in England, and the soldiers 

 must be allowed to do better than they have done as yet before they 

 stop fighting.' This no doubt is her Majesty's sentiment. Milner who 

 arranged the ' equal justice ' casus belli will now doubtless get his peer- 

 age. Sibell writes in the same strain about the unselfishness of the 

 war, and the noble qualities of all concerned. One might think it was 

 a crusade, instead of being the Stock Exchange swindle it is. The art 

 of governing the world has become the art of deceiving, not only the 

 people, but if possible one's own high-minded conscience. 



" 1 st March. — I went into Cairo with Cockerell, and learned the 

 relief of Ladysmith. Kronje capitulated a few days ago at Paardeburg, 

 and the Boer army has evacuated Natal, and seems to be concentrating 

 for a final stand on the Drakensburg line. One thing is satisfactory in 

 it, the release of Guy Wyndham from his captivity. There have been 

 debates in the House of Commons about Chamberlain's part of the 

 Raid. He now says that his white-washing of Rhodes after the Com- 

 mittee Report only concerned Rhodes' money transactions. I remem- 

 ber George telling me at the time (and he was in the thick of the plot) 

 that they had played a trick on the opposition in getting Harcourt and 

 the rest of them to agree to the Report on an understanding that Rhodes 

 was to be thrown over, and also, if I remember rightly, in forcing 

 Chamberlain's hand to support Rhodes. This one thing is certain, 

 Rhodes remained, and is still a Privy Councillor. 



" 5U1 March. — I have been very busy getting ready for our long 

 intended pilgrimage to Mount Sinai. Anne is unable to go as Judith 

 has written hurrying her departure for the expected baby, but Cock- 

 erell goes with me and my nurse. Miss Lawrence. We are to start 

 on the 7th, and take steamer to Tor on the 8th, and be met there by 

 our camels. 



" 6th March. — Evelyn spent the day with us having come to Egypt 

 with his daughters. He is in trouble having just received a telegram 

 from his son to say that he has joined the Imperial Yeomanry and is 

 going to South Africa. It is the smart thing to do just now, and all 

 the world is mad for fighting. 



" yth March. — To Suez by train, a hot, disagreeable journey, and 

 put up at the ' Bel Air,' next the station. Suez full of pilgrims, the 

 streets crowded and gay. 



" Sth March. — Occupied in taking our places by the Khedivial 



