British state extending northward from the Cape to the Zambezi or even
further. After Milner left Southern Africa, a group of bright young men
whom he had brought out from England to assist in administering the new
colonies and who became known as the Milner Kindergarten hoped to
salvage his work. They wrote a memorandum
for public consumption,
stressing the attractions of unification to white South Africans.s?
South African unity was also a goal of many thoughtful Afrikaners, but
with the opposite intent-that
it should weaken not strengthen imperial
influence. Before the war it had been beyond the bounds of practical pol-
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