Moncure D. Conway was among the first (after Howells and The Nation) to come to Twain's defense when he was beginning to come under editorial fire for his anti-imperialist statements in 1900-1901. See his letter, "Mark Twain, Literature and War," New York Times (Jan. 11, 1901), p. 8. There he says in part that Twain's statement might arouse the intellectuals in the U.S. as they had been in France during the Dreyfus affair. He mentions that he was living in France "during the last two years of that struggle," but since it actually wasn't quite over yet in early 1901, I'm not sure what years he means. According to Who Was Who in America, Conway "lectured in England and became, 1863-84, minister at South Pl. Chapel, London; on staff London Daily News, and Pall Mall Gazette." Jim Zwick [log in to unmask] http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/