246 PoI.ITICS AND IoIITICA. Associ ATION. “Quict being restored, Sir Gooroodas Banerjee ros(' from his seat on the platform and in an impressive and eloquent speech delivered in Bengalee, in which he strongly condemned the partition, proposed Ananda Molha Bosc to the chair. The proposal was carried by acclamation. The appearance of Sir Gooroodlas Banerjet on the platform of a political meeting and in the rol of a speaker was a fact so significant that it should have opened the eyes of the authoritics to the deep feeling that lay behind the anti-partition movement. A judge. has no politics. According to Sir Gooroodas, an ex-judge should lhave nonne. Wc may or may not accept this view. Some of the most distinguished of Indian judges have becn of a different opinion, and after their retirement from the Bench have not hesitated to take their share in the political movements of the day; but that was not Sir Gooroodas's opinion, and he stuck to it, with that quiet determination which so pre-cminently distinguished the man. On this occasion he was possibly overborne by the all-pervading influence of an irresistible public feeling, which punctuated our hearths and our homes. and captured the minds of young and old, rich and poor, men and women alike. All bitterly rescinted the partition. Some pretended to be neutral. Officc-scekers and sycophants affected to be pleased. "A Walion in Making" P, 815 -o-o-o-00
