"SHAM ROBESPIERRES."
THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION. AS DEFINED BY LORD CURZON. LONDON, 18th March. Lord Curzon (ex- Viceroy of India), speaking at the Junior Constitutional Club, referring to the elections and the Government's position, said there could bo no greater instance of sudden catastrophe or disintegration. He remarked that the Government's tactics were intended to prolong their existence, postpone defeat, and embarrass the finances. They wanted to produce confusion, and put their enemies in a false position. The country expected broadminded and dispassionate statesmanship, and did not expect the Government's policy to be actuated by the spirit of the political gambler. The country did not intend that the House of Lords should go. The Government were not exactly Cromwolls, competent to destroy one of the two Houses. It would not be by sham Robespierres that any great revolution could be carried. The House of Lords should be reformed on broad and generous lines. He hoped the approaching elections would return a party strong enough to carry such reforms of the Constitution as were required to pass sound measures of fiscal and 6ocial reform.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5
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"SHAM ROBESPIERRES."
Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5
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