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nion being expressed in newspapers and magazines in Europe, nor the spread of disinformation
by the Boers, British and other countries not directly involved.
Under Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany had supported the Boers at the time of the Jameson Raid,
when an attempt was made to subvert the authorities in Johannesburg. By the time the Boer War
started in 1899, however, British diplomatic moves had improved relations with Germany and,
besides, Britain was still the world’s greatest maritime power. France, although frustrated by her
failure to acquire a colonial toe-hold in East Africa as a result of the British presence, was still more
eager to repossess Alsace-Lorraine and British support against Germany would be vital for that. The
Netherlands were wholeheartedly in support of their Boer kinsmen in South Africa, as were the
Flemish population of Belgium. The French-speaking Walloons of Belgium nurtured an antipathy to
Britain in any case and shared their countrymen’s views, but neither of these two small nations had
sufficient power to influence affairs. Only Russia showed a harmony of government policy and public
opinion in supporting the Boers, but it amounted to very little in practice.
In the media things were very different. The French press in particular was loud in its
condemnation of the British, and wildly romantic in its portrayal of the Boers, who were presented as
champions of freedom (the black African population being forgotten). Intellectuals and poets wrote
moving pleas on behalf of the Boers and imaginative accounts of British beastliness with as much
attention to veracity as the popular press had shown before and have shown since. The principal
outcome was the raising of funds for the relief of distress and much the same thing was taking place in
Britain at the same time.
The Boer republics sent missions to the governments of Europe and eventually President Kruger
himself undertook such a role, but with no success. As the war continued, a colonial war in China, the
Boxer Rebellion, distracted world attention and the Boers were forced to recognise that external help
would never come.
See also:
British Opposition to the War; United States of America, Attitude of.
Reference:
Lowry, Donal, “When the World Loved the Boers”, History Today,May 1999; Pretorius, Fransjohan,
The Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Cape Town, Don Nelson, 1985).
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