W.T. Stead's Controversial Visit to South Africa, 1904
'Frankly I am ashamed of being a Briton for the treatment we have meted out to the Boers as revealed by you and so justly condemned in your pages’ - John Burns to W. T. Stead.
On visiting South Africa in 1913, Evelyn Wrench, a former member of Alfred Milner's 'Kindergarten', asked the South Africans to name three Englishmen whom they admired most and they readily listed Gladstone, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and W. T. Stead. They had good reason to name the great editor, Stead, who, during and after the late South African War, was an ardent pro-Boer and an unrelenting critic of the war.
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