The Story of an African Crisis

xxxi; 308 pages; 13 adverts.

A comprehensive account of the Jameson Raid, the incidents which led up to it, and the subsequent complications. The author discusses the various attitudes of statesmen concerned, summerising them under four headings which suggest: (1) What Lord Ripen presumably sanctioned, and what Lord Loch did in 1894; (2) What Mr. Chamberlain was probably prepared to sanction in 1895; (3) What Mr. Rhodes was probably prepared to sanction; (4) What Jameson actually did.   He remarks that "while Dutchmen denounce the raid as privateering for the Union Jack," it seems a little squalid that some Englishmen should be denouncing it as a "stock-jobbing speculation" and observes that while Chamberlain's trump card is the Boer intrigue with Berlin, Kruger's trump card "would be the conviction of the Colonial Secretary of complicity in the Jameson Raid." (Mendelssohn volume 1 page 590)