Morley, amid cheers, read the' King's transference announcement.
Lord Lansdowne affirmed that: the changes were of a momentous character. He deprecated discussion of them at present. He laid emphasis on the fact that by making Delhi the capital traditions were being uprooted, and on the abrupt reversal of Lord Curzon's policy by the creation of a great Bengali This would cause great elation and province of forty millions of people.
fopes and serious mortification. The disappointment, the highest word of an Emperor once passed was irrevocable. They must, there fore, defer a discussion.
Lord Macdonnell wholly approved of the changes.
Lord Curzon, speaking with emotion, said that the changes were 40 startling and tremendous and so abrupt a departure from the accepted policy, that they demanded the closest scrutiny.
The subject then dropped.
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