The retirement of Lord Reading] has been met wita a chorus of praise in the Home press, Lord Meston's tribute probably being the most just estimate of the Ex-Viceroy's qualities: "His supreme achievement is that he did not make mistakes. He had to do unpopular things, yet he never lost touch with human undecstanding and sympathy with Indian the failure of even hix most malig. nant critics to manufacture a genuine grievance out of hia acts or words. He identified himself unselfishly with Nationalist aspirations and faced the risk of gravely embroiting himself with the British Cabinet when he espoused the cause of Turkey in the interests ian Moslems. In such ways leading endeavoured to place self at the head of a truly national Government and India will not be ungrateful." Meanwhile the rumour is repeated that Lord Reading will not remain an official Liberal. It is also anticipated that he will take up an important diplomatic post abroad, possibly the French Ambassadorship.
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