Item 947/545 - Twenty-six letters exchanged between Brigadier-General Hon. Sir C.P. Crewe M.P., corresponding from East London and...

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Twenty-six letters exchanged between Brigadier-General Hon. Sir C.P. Crewe M.P., corresponding from East London and...

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  • December 1916-December 1917 (Creation)

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Twenty-six letters exchanged between Brigadier-General Hon. Sir C.P. Crewe M.P., corresponding from East London and Cape Town, South Africa, and Long. Crewe's letters contain a detailed and often highly critical review of events, largely political and military in South Africa. They include comment on, for example, the unceasing conflict between Dutch and British interests; the East African campaign; the political situation in the Union and Botha's position as Prime Minister; recruiting within the Union for the East African and European theatres of war; the necessity for post-war British immigration into South Africa to counterbalance the Dutch population; the growth of nationalist and republican feeling amongst the Dutch; etc. Includes three letters exchanged between Long, Sir L.S. Jameson and Lord Selborne dealing with enclosure f from Crewe, February 1917.

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Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre >> THE POLITICAL PAPERS OF WALTER HUME LONG, 1st VISCOUNT LONG OF WRAXALL, 1854-1924 >> SECTIONS 15 - 23; SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, DECEMBER 1916 - JANUARY 1919 >> SECTION 16; PAPERS CATALOGUED ALPHABETICALLY BY CORRESPONDENT >> CREWE, Brigadier-General Hon. Sir Charles Preston

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