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(HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 23, 1909)
MY LORDS. I invite the House to take to-day the first definite and operative step in carrying out the policy that I had the honour of describing to your Lordships just before Christmas, and that has occupied the active consideration both of the Home Government and of the Government of India for very nearly three years. The statement was awaited in India with an expectancy that with time became impatience, and it was received in India -- and that, after all, is the point to which I looked with the most anxiety -- with intense interest and attention and various degrees of approval, from warm enthusiasm to cool assent and acquiescence.