Speeches (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Speeches [On Friday evening, the 28th October, 1898, a dinner was given by old Etonians at the Cafe Monico to Lord Curzon of Kedleston (Viceroy-Designate of India), the Earl of Minto (Governor-General-Designate of Canada), and the Revd. J. E. C. Welldon (Bishop-Designate of Calcutta). Lord Rosebery, who presided, proposed the toast of "Our Guests." In the course of his speech he said: - Lastly, I take the case of our friend who is going to undertake the highest post of the three, because after all it is one of the highest posts that any human being can occupy. He goes to it in the full flower of youth, and of manhood, and of success - a combination to which everyone must wish well. Lord Curzon has this additional advantage in his favour - that he is reviving a dormant class, the Irish peerage. (Laughter and cheers.) Some might think that that implied some new legislative or constitutional development on the part of Her Majesty´s Government, but it would be out of my place to surmise that to be the case. But, at any rate, sure I am of this - that Lord Curzon of Kedleston has shown in his position at the Foreign Office qualities of eloquence, of debating power, of argument, which have hardly been surpassed in the career of any man of his standing. (Hear, hear.) I cannot say - it would be difficult to say - that he has done so in defence of difficult positions, because that would be at once to raise a political issue of the very gravest kind. (Laughter.) But I am quite sure that no Under-Secretary has ever had to defend in the House of Commons any but positions of difficulty, and I think the foreign situations are always of that character, I am quite sure that when Lord Curzon has had to defend these situations he has defended them with not less than his customary success. He has devoted special study to India, I believe he has even entered into amicable relations with neighbouring potentates. He will pass from his home of Kedleston in Derbyshire to the exact reproduction of Kedleston in Government House, Calcutta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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