made itself
responsible for their safety; since they and the other
Reformers, with the town of Johannesburg, had laid down their
arms on the faith of Lord Rosmead's declaration that he would
obtain reasonable reforms from President Krueger for the
Uitlanders.]

[Footnote 30: In the question of the Swaziland border, the
affair of Bunu, and the continued and increasing
ill-treatment of the Cape Boys, the Boer Government
manifested its old spirit of aggression and duplicity. All
these matters involved Lord Milner in anxious and wearisome
negotiations, which, however, he contrived by mingled
firmness and address to keep within the limits of friendly
discussion.]

If Lord Milner was prepared to make the most of Paul Krueger and the
Boers, he showed himself no less ready to see the best side of the
Dutch in the Cape Colony. As we have already had occasion to notice,
the year of his appointment was that of the Diamond Jubilee
celebration; and on June 23rd he sent home a brief despatch in which
he dwelt with evident satisfaction upon the share taken by the Dutch
in the general demonstrations of loyalty called forth by the occasion
in the Cape Colony. After a reference to the number of loyal addresses
or congratulatory telegrams which had been sent to the Colonial
Secretary for transmission to the Queen, he continued:

"The enthusiasm evoked here ... seems to me to be of peculiar
interest ... in view of recent events, which, as you are aware,
have caused a feeling of considerable bitterness among different
sections of the community. All I can say is that, so far as I am
able to judge, these racial differences have not affected the
loyalty of any portion of the community to Her Majesty the Queen.
People of all races, the English, the Dutch, the Asiatics, as
well as the African natives, have vied with one another in
demonstrations of affection for her person and devotion to the
throne. When every allowance is made for the exaggeration of
feeling caused by the unparalleled scale and prolonged duration
of the present festivities, and for the contagious excitement
which they have produced, it is impossible to doubt that the
feeling of loyalty among all sections of the population is much
stronger than has sometimes been believed. In my opini