Thus in wil the decisions affecting Lord Curzon which have been criticived, Mr. Brodrick's responsibility is, he urges, shared by either the Cabinet or the India Gouneil, while iv addition he carried out strictly the recommendations of the influential committee, consisting of Lord Roberts, Sir George White, and others, who werenppointed to consider the scheme of Lord Kitchener and the objections raised against it by Lord Curzon. Butler te tone of the dispatches Mr, Brodrick must, of course, be held responsible 'The question is' sull asked whether the opinion of either the Cabinet or the India Council was taken before the dispatch of the telegram in which the Viceroy was ordered to show his telegrams to the Command in-chief, "and also this telegram." This was in consequence of a telegram which Lord Kitchener'sont to the "Times" con-troverring not a: statement contained in one of Lord Curzon's dispatches but an inference drawn by the "Times" from that statement. It was certainly a most tactless message. As the " Westminster Gazette" remarks, "It was above all things desirable that the necessary changes should be made without impairing the power and prestige of the Civil Government, and_how was that possible when the new Viceroy was required to submit himself and show his badge of submission to the military chief
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