With relation to foreign policy, Lord Salisbury raised a lament
as usual over the evacuation of Candahar and the surrender of the so-called "scientific frontier." He seems unable to grasp the fact that if we had still been in occupation of Candahar, so far from having Afghanistan on our side, we should have Afghanistan plotting with Russia to turn us out. No omen can be worse for Lord Salisbury's foreign policy than the tenacity with which he returns again and again to his lamenta- tions over the abandonment of his own short-sighted and fatal foreign policy in India. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, following Lord Salisbury, anticipated a great triumph at the General Election, for what he-called "the Constitutional Party." And Sir Michael seriously meant by the Oonstitutional Party the party which has installed in power Lord Randolph Churchill.
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