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CURZON INSPECTS THE Indian army: DRINGING IT UP TO STRENGTH WAS ONE OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS.

and sometimes tears

Pomp, pageantry

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scheme to reduce the hold of dropping on the page:

"Grind, grind, grind. with wrote. with

EORGE NATHANIEL CURZON was at 39, India"-with the draft of a new tacked him "for trying to Im- For a time Mary kept the to strength, should be the new Bill to alter the labour laws on prove the Indians against their news from Curzon, knowing that Commander-in-Chief of the the youngest Viceroy of India in history. the Assam tea plantations and will" he would sometimes break in the mood in which she had Indian Army. His was, as Lord Beaverbrook has remarked

the mlacs in the North; with a down and write, with tears left him, he would have been He wanted a ble name. *Tho driven frontie. "I fear he would position of C.-in-C, in India was in his book, Men And Power, "an office filled with the rascally money lenders on

the peasant farmers; and

have followed me home," alle second only to the Viceroy him-

selt. pomp and ceremony...

this sub- Why not, for ordinate position, secure the ser- vices of the most widely-hailed hero of the day—Lord Kitchener who Whether, for all his love of Khartoum, the soldier

had saved Gordon, who had her, Curzon would in fact have

suved the situation in South followed her home is a question. Africa, whose name Was on He had reached a stoge by This

"In his train followed kong

strings of elephants

vants

and re-

tinues of gally colourful per- .. For all the rest of his life Curzon was influenced by his sudden journey to heaven at the age 30 and by lûs ie- tum to earth seven years inter, for the remainder of his mortal exiatanco,**

even Catvora

complexities, daunting

responsibilities.

Welcome

in its

a plan to create a Department of Archaeology through which the ancient temples and monu- ments of India would thenee- forth be kept in a state of pre- him, soldiers servation.

From the reviewing stand of the c of Government House steps he watched his mies marching before

an every regiment in Indio, The tours that were never far away on emotional Coca- sions welled in Curzon's

eyes.

[ the Ilken

cloak

Rigid

His tnost famous achievement was to restore the beaullful

at the same

never word of encourage- meni: on, on, on, Will the collar breaks and the Door besat stumbles and dles. I suppose it is all right and 11 docan't matter. But sometimes, when I think of myself spending my heart's blood bere and no one caring a litle damn, the spirit goes out of me and I feel like

Obsession

for

time when the Viceroyalty ud uldier of them all?

everyone's ps as the greatest. become not so much a task as an derful to have him in India-as

giving it. You don't know obsession. For the moment, Curzon's deputy!

even the visions of high politični

How won- ·

office at home paled before his found him willing to take

He wrote to Kitchener and

Asiatic ambitions,

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the

"I suddenly saw what had come into my hands, and what pro-

or perhaps you do what my Isolation has been this sum- To a man of

digies of energy and inspiration tomb, the Taj Mahal, to its pris- tine glory, but there were hunt- bourelles

mer. I am crying now so that confidence In

would be needed his

on my part dreds of other temples, palaces I can scarcely see the page."

job (for Kitchener had ambi- own legislative ability, his was

By 1001, when Curzon had tons of his own). to guide them," he wroz later.

Immediate- tombs which would be position

This letter was written to his served two-thirds of his term, he ly, all Curzon's friends wrole to That night he dressed him. and, awesome in it:

crumbled ruins today had it not wife Mary, at home in England, hatt achieved such relt in the Court dress

power that warn him. Lord Esher wrote: been for Curzon's zeal.

For Mary, expecting third he considered his position im- "I and him Viceroy, smoothing

an uncouth and Curzon maintained that his child (they already had two pregnable. Nights over

Every new move ruthless Bus shapely legs tark as Viceroy was to amello- daughters), had gone home to secured him plaudits from

man." Lord Lans- donning the gallant gold-and-

the downe:

shudder at the crimson Jacket, and over the rate the lot of the masses, while England.

multitudes. He gave them cir- thought of turning him loose... time encouraging jewelled sky-blue

She had left unwillingly, but uses but he also gave them in India." and the middle classes to take over in great hopes. This time, both bread, and medicine, too. His ashes of his office. With Mary the minor chores of government she and Curzon were sure their court glittered with pomp

But though everyone warned beside him in her vivid pea for which, as a race, the Indians child would be the son they had panoply but his legislation

and Curzon that Kitchener was or- cock dress and new tarn (which were Aled. There was no prayed for, the son who would immaculate and far-sighted. But and a bully, he would not listen. rogant, ambitious, unscrupulous her father, Levi Leiter, had paid thought in his mind that even cerry on Curzon's title and power gave him a god-complex. for), they descended io

With supreme confidence, he the the "educaled Indians" should name.

He would never subordinate any sent great hall for the banquet held some day take their place at the

telegram of congratula- But it was not to be. On the of his work, but would write out tion and welcome to Kitchener, In the Viceory's honour,

hund of the State. That, be vayage home she was taken to great reams of legislation in his and blandly ignored any sugges But he was soon hard at work, asserted, would always remain desperately ill that she called own hand. He did not trust his tions from his friends that ho He was determined to be the first the dedicated duty of the friends to her cabin and dictated assistants, patronised them, Dul was taking a viper to his bosom. Viceroy to penetrate the length British.

her will, convinced that she was led them for not wearing knee- and breadth of his vast domain. He put down any nationalistle dying. What died instead was breeches, criticised them openly. He came back from his first ex- demonstrations with rigid lis- the child; and whether It was Curzon's most anxious problem lensive tour-be himself called clpline and reprisal. And when the son they both desired we by mid-term was the question of It "My triumphal march through some of his critles at home at shall never know.

who, now he had brought it up

C01-

Curzon neederi demon- stration of the immensity of his inheritance, he got it on the afternoon of January 3, 1809, when the State carriage inining himself and his wife drew up at Government House in Calcutta, Alf around him, in the streets and squares, the brown bodiest of his subjects were jammed together like 59 entery of rats, squeaking nad shrinking a welcome

newly-arrived overlord,

to

the

WAR

WEDNESDAY: The bitter struggle

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