"The greatest evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people"

Don't know about you Christmas but that would appear to be an expression of someone's opinion - In what way could it be possibly construed as a "Policy" (Def: Plan of action to achieve a stated and defined objective).

By the way Charles Edward Trevelyan as a senior civil servant would not set any British Government Policy, that being the sole responsibility of the elected Government of the day. Charles Edward Trevelyan would on the other hand have to carry out any such policy as it affected his stated duties and responsibilities. I thought that I had to explain that Christmas as you earlier posted somewhere that you believed that Trevelyan was running the show entirely off his own bat and was passing orders to Charles Wood and John Russell (Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister of the elected Government of the United Kingdom respectively) Always helps a discussion if people actually know what end is actually up - prevents the establishment of ludicrous and inaccurate ideas (Christmas is plagued with them constantly).