Welcome Home ! 



LONDON, Feb. ist, 1912. 

 The King and Queen, after having 

 carried out the programme of their 

 Indian tour with a success unmarred 

 by a single misfortune, are back in 

 England once more. His Majesty telegraphed to 

 Mr. Asquith on tiie eve of his departure from Bom- 

 liay : " From all sources, public and private, I gather 

 that my highest 

 hopes have been 

 realised, and that 

 the success of 

 our visit has e.\- 

 u-eded all antici- 

 pations. I re- 

 joice that, thanks 

 to the mutual 

 confidence be- 

 tween me and 

 my people at 

 hdine, 1 have 

 thus been en- 

 abled to fulfil 

 the wish of my 

 heart." This 

 witness is con- 

 firmed on all 

 fides. Our old 

 friend Bipin 

 Chandra Pal, 

 fresh from pri- 



licr., whither he had been consigned ;is a welii'mc 

 home, so far fioin bearing any ill-will sends me 

 a letter almost diihyrambic in its terms of grati- 

 tude and exullnii'in. The Delhi Durbar will live 

 in history, not merely as a biipirb lageant, for 

 pageants come :ind pageants go, but as the notifi- 

 cation to the wiiii'l that in King (leorge we have a 

 King-Emperor uIijic prerogative is mijjhty. and who 



r.xl! ^I.ilt G.i..:ti.\ 



Mr. Asquith's Happy Family. 



.\ new vcr^i"ii "1" .in ol'l iMir-.<;ry rlij'iiic 



has both a will and a way of securing the desires of 

 his heart. I'or let it be remembered that this Indian 

 trip was due to the King's own initiative. If the 

 Cabinet could have decided it by a show of hands he 

 would never have been allowed to go to Delhi. But 

 King George had made up his mind from the first 

 hour of his kingship that he would go to India, and 

 all opposition only hardened his resolution into 



adamant. He 

 has had his will 

 and he has gone 

 his way, and 

 now he comes 

 back flushed 

 with a great 

 su( cess to pre- 

 side over the 

 councils of a 

 divided Cabinet, 

 which in its first 

 clash with the 

 Royal will has 

 been proved by 

 events to have 

 been in the 

 wrong. 



Monarchy 



In 



the Ascendant. 



King George left 

 our shores King, 

 lie returns King-Emperor, with all that the Imperial 

 title implies. The o|)position led by the Liberals 

 to the Royal Titles Bill some six and thirty years ago 

 was based upon a sound instinct. The undoing of 

 the partition of Bengal by an Imperial word, without 

 consultation with Parliament, and the immediate 

 acceptance of the decree as something that could not 

 be nuestioned, since it was the King's word, is 



