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THE MONTAGU-CURZON" DISPUTE.
"LORD CURZON EXPLAINS.
The Marquis Curzon was more than equal to the occasion on March 14th. Important as it was, and as it was manifestly felt to be by the large gathering of peers and the throng of Privy Councillors standing by the Throne, he made it even more ceremonial still by the studied dignity of his words and bearing. After Mr. Chamberlain's state ment of the day before, no one doubted that the Foreign Secretary had a strong case; but no one could have conceived, after bearing his explanation, that Mr. Montaga BO reckless with his would have been reputation, when the reply was bound to come so soon and to be so deadly when it camo. Lord Curzon's concluding words
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¦ of my life,” he exclaimed, as her sauk back on to the bench on the conclusion of an aloquent peroration, in which be told the House how he had gloried in his work at the India Ofoe, and explained the ideals which had sustained him, and for a moment t seemed though he were going to loss his self-control,
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The main body of the House was cold towards him very cold-though he was not without sympathisers on the Labour and Liberal benches, and be spoke most of the time in a silence which was as frigid as that of a mortuary, Bat indignation lent him, vigour, and, moreover, Mr. Montagu is manifestly under the fixed im-CALCUTTA LINE: This Line afforda regular salling to Calcutts, Penang ad pression that he is a terribly illused man. He does not admit that he has done any thing that he should not have done; what he feels is that he has been cruelly treated by his late colleagues the Government, of]
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ther Mr. Montagu's private or public conduct member-colleagues who, as he thought, was the more insexplicable and suprising," were all his loyal friends. Why they had and that in choosing those epithets he was turned and rended he did not any; but he astonished at his own moderation. He kept on reiterating that the "grave.com. had so plainly woa
trick institutional outrage" with which he was HAIPHONG the game that he could afford to dismiss his charged was nothing but a pretext, espe challenger with a sarcasm, and not seek to | cially as it came from a Government which | BORNED crush him with moral rebuke.
more than any other had failed to maintain the tradition of collective Cabinet respon- sibility.
The charge of Mr. Montagu against Lord Curzon was that he had courived at the publication of the Viceroy's manifesto, when it was still oper to him to raise the matter in Cabinet, and so stop publication. Lord Curzon'a explanation was that he was so "dumbfounded in Cabinet room st Mr. Montagu's statement to him in private conversation that he had already authorised publication, that he at once "closed Conversation," "and resumed his seat at the Cabinet table. If Mr. Montagu
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that there was still time to counter- mand publication he would have at once invited the Cabinet to send such a prohibition, but be naturally assumed that publication bad already taken place, in view of the urgency of the Viceroy's second telegram and of Mr. Montagu's statement that he bad cabled permission. Lord Curzon added that he was ill at the time, and had. only gone to the Cabinet because of some urgent,Foreiga Office business, and so be leit the meating as soon as that business was done with.
However, feeling "profoundly disturbed and dismayed," he wrote Mr. Montagu the Dow famous private letter that same Monday afternoon, and vainly awaited a reply all Tuesday and Wednesday. He had himself kept no copy but had received one yesterday morning evidently from Mr. Montagu and Lord Curzon complained strongly of his late colleague's action in forcing the publication of a private letter, describing it as "an unprecedented and intolerable thing, and not consistent with the honour of public life." Lord Curzon led up to the reading of the letter very skilfully by reminding the Peers of the vilifying epithets which Mr Montague had used in respect of it "plaintive, hectoring, bullying, complaining" -and inviting them to form their own opinion upon it.
The facts which he begged the House to TIENISIN keep in mind were these:
1. That before the Cabinet meeting | BANGKOS on Monday every Minister had had the Viceroy's telegram in his "possession forty-eight hora...
2. That he saw his colleagues on the first three days of the week, and none of them alluded to the "outrage" which he had committed.
3. That the only action taken by any one of them was the "foolish" letter of Lord Curzon. ."
4. That he was obliged to refer to that letter, because without doing so he could not make his case.
5. That be wag present at the Cabinet on Wednesday and no one said * word,
6. That if Lord Curzon had been so deeply wounded he ought to have raised the matter at once in the Cabinet on Monday.
7. That there was more ban a "chance" that if a telegram had been sent. off at once to India, publication might have been stopped.
Mr. Montage, therefore declared in effect that Lord Curzon could not absolve himself of responsibility, and after referring to the letter, from which he had not wished to quote, but to which he was bound to "refer, he really could not help bi self: his only means of justifying mself.
Then followed a passage f.hich the ex- Minister very successfully def bed himself against the grave charge of saving mis represented the tenour of Lord Qurzon's, letter. It was alla question of punctuation, he said. A clumsy, loose, rhetorical expressscn" of his in his speech at Cam- bridge and made many people imagine that be had beati guilty of. intentional misinterpretation. Here Mr. Montagu won the whole House round to his explanation, and convinced that he had never meant to say, as it was thought he asid, that Lord Curzon invited him next time to confer with him about publication and not with the Cabinet, though that was what most people who read the phrase understood him to mean.
OF DANGEROUS IMPORT." The letter proved to be, as Lord Crowe very justly observed a little later, father more formal" than one would have expert edas between two closely associated colleagues, but there was nothing in it to justify Mr. Montagu's epithets, and certainly no trace or indication of bullying. Lord Carson's main point in the letter was that it seemed to him of very dangerous import In the later passages of his speech Mr. that a subordinate branch of the British Montagu protested against Lord Curzon's Government should seek to dictate to the reference to India as a subordinate branch Foreiga Office the lines of Imperial policy of the British Government," and argued with respect to the Turks in Thrace and that if the India Government had a right Smyras, and that Indian Moslem opinion to express its view it was 'no good hushing should decide British policy towards Moham-it up. The. Viceroy's telegram was not medans in all other parts of the Empire. an attempt to dictate to the British He hoped, therefore, that this would be the Government and people, and India was last of these unfortunate pronouncements, or entitled to a predominant voice in the that, if any other were contemplated, Mr. settlement of the Turkish problem. Montagu would allow him a chance of ex-ally, he gare the reasons why, pressing bir opinion upon it in Cabinet. though he had "fundamentally differed The last two words are most important. from the Government " 00 For whether Mr. Montagu meant it or not, Near Enat policy, be Ind not resigned. the words he used at Cambridge seemed to Had he done so, he feared it might have imply that Lord Curzon had requested him disastrous effect on India, and, moreover, to obtain his personal sanction as Foreign he loved and gloried in his work, aul be Minister in future rather than submit the thought he enjoyed. the loyalty of his matter to the Cabinet.
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Such was Mr. Montagu's apologia, 'und as an example of rhetorical pleading it was a performance of great ability and power, which would have been even more effective had it been made in the House of Commons on Thursday or Friday last, immediately after his resignation, without the interpost tion of the most unfortunate Cambridge speech. In that case the intentional misrc- presentation issue need never have arisen.
Lord Curzon's triumph, as far as the "House of Lords was concerned was absolute and complete, He did not overact his part, He said all that Was needed and no more, with the result that the whole House was with him, and the natural flow of Opposition, sympathy with Mr. Montagu was checked and turned back by the circumstance that he had put himself entirely out of court. Lord Crowe did not attempt to excuse the inexcusable. Mr. Montagu, he said, had committed breach of the ordinary courtesies of Cabinet procedure to which he could recall no prece dent, and be stated quite frankly that Lord Curzon's letter did not deserve the epithets which Mr. Montagu had applied to it On the other hand, he left bound to remember that Mr. Montags had done signal service to India, and even his breach
EYE COMFORT of duty as a Cabinet Minister was "leas surprising" than it would have been if he means better health and better resulta had belonged to a Calient which had faith.
Mr. Chamberlain replied, and Mr. Asquith pointed the moral that the Government should get back without delay to the "old straight ways" of honest party Government impossible for a Coalition to follow.Daily Telegraph.
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