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The only consolation one can derive from this unpleasant business

is to be found in the way in which both Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Curzon behaved. They upheld, as one was certain they would, the very best traditions of our public life. Lord Curzon's only fault, if it was a fault, was that he treated his colleague as a man incapable of doing what Mr. Montagu was in fact doing. Lord Curzon was first misled and then grossly insulted. We have only one more thing to say. If Lord Reading is a man with any sense of what is due to himself and to his friend the late ex-Seeretary of State he will resign. If he does not he should at once be recalled.

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