If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country [i.e. South Africa] will be safe and prosperous. - Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with.

The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago".

"Churchill was 'very keen, able, and broad-minded' and a 'powerful backer', but warned that his weakness was being 'too apt to make up his mind without sufficient knowledge'.