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Later on indeed he referred to the criticism which had been made on the conduct of the liberal leaders in Parliament in a letter to Sir Ashley Eden (1880) : "Just look back, " he wrote, "to what happened. A steady line of policy right or wrong had been followed for nearly forty years under successive administrations on both sides. All of a sudden my Lords Salisbury and Beaconsfield determine to change it altogether and despatch Lord Lytton loaded and primed to carry out their views. This brings... them into trouble and war, and instead of taking their line boldly as they ought, they garble facts for the purpose of throwing the blame upon their pre- decessors and especially upon your humble servant. I was absolutely forced to expose them ; and would you have had me, and those who thought with me, to have been silent when we thought the safety of India risked by a policy which for years we had always opposed ? " For the moment the operations of the Indian Govern- ment appeared to be fully successful, and when the occupa- tion of Kandahar was effected and the Treaty of Gundamuk, which established the "rectification of the frontier" and provided for the appointment of a British resident at Cabul, had been concluded with Yakub Khan, the new Amir, the 148 AFGHANISTAN, EGYPT, NAVY prognostications of the opposition were for the time for- gotten.
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