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MAJPUTAN
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LORD BALFOUR'S
PLACE IN HISTORY
(Continued from Col. 6)
"Joe" broke Gladstone, whom The detested I think he could also have broken Balfour, whom he heartily admired for the qualities,which he himself lack- ed. He steadily refused, how~; ever, to raise the standard of actual revolt, though he with- drew from the Cabinet to educate opinion from outside.
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winding stair." He might have succeeded Asquith in the crisis of December, 1916 Bonar Law offered him the prize in the Mall as they came away from the famous inter-1 view with the King at Bucking- ham Palace. He pressed him again when they reached Bal-! four's house in Carlton House Gardens. He offered to serve under him, and suggested that Asquith and
Lloyd George might consent to do the same.
Balfour's answer was 3 steadfast No and No and No.) Why? Because he knew that he had not the qualities re-f quired in a War Minister, and that the one man who did pos-
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Strategy And Peter
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Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-sess them was L.G.
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"Fool," she told herself savage- ly. "Fool. Why couldn't I realise ) before that there has really sever Just been anyone except Peter. because I knew him so well I thought we could never be anything|
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what to Betty to try and win him back. Balfour was well aware of it,newspapers nor cared
¡they said.
Instead she decided to show Peter and yet urged L.G.'s claims to
Yet his power of vision was that she could do without him, and There was the Premiership. no jealously in his disposition. equal to the flexibility of his for the next fortnight was so graci intellect. True, he manifestly jous to young Dr. Martin that that More remarkable still, there!
underrated the strength of the promising young medical practi- was no thought of self.
gale of nationalist feeling when tioner several times trembled pre- To Foreign Office
it began to blow from all quar-cariously on the brink of a pro- The new Premier transferred ters of the compass. He had posal, and bought a suburban prac- Balfour to the Foreign Offee in no belief in paraceas, least of tice on the strength of a chance! the room of. Grey. It was the all in Wilsonian self-determina-remark that she thought that one Department for which he tion.
suburb quite a nice place to live in was ideally fitted. For Balfour!
Note On War Debts
When Peter rang her up and suggested lunch she said, "Too was a master hand in the draft-
On the other hand, he adopt-busy!" and rang off before he could ing of a difficult diplomatic Note, and when he was Headed Zionism with an astonishing propose another date. She wasn't degree of enthusiasm. His picking up crumbs and being grate- of the British Mission to the Cabinet memorandum of 1917, ful, she told herself defiantly. Next that you take so long about it?” thoroughly U.S.A. the gravest obstacles in which he strongly emphasis-time he rang. a week later, it was "Oh, that I was just wonder thought it possible for any human melted away in his presence.
Jed the perils which must attend harder to refuse. Betty was misering, as to-morrow's Saturday, if to be. The second time that be
rou'd come for a run and try out "Oh, if he'd only stop telling me Swettenham, might have become Premier 3 total disruption of the Aus-able.
So to hide her unhappiness, my new car. trian Empire, is a standing
I got one while you bow nice it is. she moaned to was in 1922, when the post-war monument to his political pre-Betty danced more gaily than ever, were away, you know. Don't say herself, and when Peter turned
distintegrating science. was
His famous Note on and steadily refused to accept any no. Bet, please; I've something her in the tiny hall and said. fast, and the only question was War Debts, which irritated af Peter's invitations, which were special I want you to see. No, I'm "Well, what do you think of it?"* who should strike the finishing instead of convincing Ameri- quite surprisingly frequent now. not going to tell you what it is. try as she would she could not stop blow. Balfour was absent_in
very have the treat. Coming?" by agreement cancellation Betty's had given a tisfied Conservatives waited foolish flutter as he tucked his arm And Betty, throwing all her good Peter seized her by the shoulders would fall in with their plans. impecuniosity of all.
talking in his old eager way of the There was a hint of spring in the "Why, Betty, what are crying hundred and .one They might have known him
things they air next day. and Peter, watching for? Don't you like the house? It was Balfour, too, who com- better.
Betty come down the steps of the Doesn't it make any difference? "Very elusive, these days, are 't house as he drew up before the You know, I bought it for you, but During the midnight scene in posed, when the collective wis-always had to talk about.
dom of the Imperial Conference the Cabinet Room at No. 10, had failed, the ingenious for-you. Bet?" he said. I've hardly gate, thought she had never looked I suppose I've been a clumsy fool,
seen you since you came back. so lovely. She wore a frock of blue as usual. Darling zon who that afternoon had mula which, embodied later in Who's the latest victim?
that matched the colour of her eyes Betty freed herself from his the Statute of Westminster,
Betty conquered a treacherous and a hat that skilful French fin-grasp and looked up at him. made his own terms with Bonar abolished for ever the supreoke in her voice and managed algers had given a saucy tilt. And **Peter, what do you mean? Are Law-was revealed. it was macy of the Imperial Parlia-light laugh. Balfour's indignation at the
Betty, looking at Peter piling out you telling me that you that' ment over the self-governing "Oh, you don't want to be of the car and coming to meet her, "What I'm trying to tell you is treachery which found the most Dominions of the British Em- bothered with me, Peter, when wondered show she could over have that I love you, but I seem to have scathing expression. He was pire and left the Crown as the you're in love. By the way, who been anything but wildly in love made a horrible mess of it." neither Brutus, nor Cassíus,
only link.
is she?" She hoped her voice with him. Nobody could have "Not such a mess, Peter." nor Casca in Caesar's' fall. The New
That was certainly the most sounded casual.
called Peter handsome, but there She was in his arms again, but highest place as such-had no historic and irrevocable of Bal- "Who is who?"
was something very likeable about closer, this time. "You mean?".. attraction for him. He had
"Just that, my own. note- "Stupid. The girl you were tell his cheery grin and his well-built occupied it once, and he had four's "half-sheets of
The implications heling me you'd fallen in love with."
six feet of muscle and tan. paper."
I was quite a long time after- found it uncongenial. Northen wrote between its lines in "Oh, I Bet. Well funnily Where to?" she said, as they wards that she remembered the indeed, was it the place best invisible ink will become mani. enough, she's called Betty, too. climbed in after she had duly ad-other Betty, whose place she had suited to his talents or his tem-fest and legible as Fate
Must be something in the name ired the shininess of the new apparently very completely usurp that appeals to perament
mel Afraid I'll sports model:
ed, but when she ventured a ques- ordain. The fastidious are rarely
have to desert you now. Got an
A little canter round the tion. Peter cut her short. important conference."
suburbs and then anywhere you "I suppose I've got to explain, Manila, Pabani, Brisbane, dydney strong administrators, nor are
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Not very illuminating about the like. I want to show you some but you'll have to forgive me, action. Balfour's early success ceau, as Balfour entered the unknown's identity. It almost thing," and Peter "stepped on it" sweetheart. I was a desperate at the Irish Office may be attri- Conference Room at Versailles seemed as if Peter didn't want to with such vigour that it was several man. You see' I've always loved buted largely to a cool and dis- in 1919, "let me introduce you discuss the girl with her.
blocks before she gathered breath you, Betty, even when you were a
Ten They met again some days later again.
minutes' dainful courage in the face of to the Richelieu of the Confer-
driving schoolgirl with two plaits down fat a private dance. Peter was late, brought them to a delightful little your back. But when you grew up venomous attacks before which fence!" his predecessors had flinched It was a superb compliment-but Betty gave him her two last bouse set well back in its grounds there were always such a lot of and retired broken in health or the greatest a Frenchman could dances, and they danced the first on a quiet street. Peter drew up others, and before you went away Betty with a flourish before the front last year you made it pretty plain spirit.
offer. "What, then, may I call through in unusual silence. you, M. le President?" said would have liked to introduce the gate, and turned to his passenger. that you didn't think of me as a
Kice little place?"
romantic figure. So I thought, Balfour, somewhat taken aback subject of the other Betty, who, as He was to fail later at the for the moment. "Call me your far as she could see, was certainly "Rather said Betty. "Pet of perhaps, I wasn't always hang- Who owns it? Are weling round, you might miss me a Admiralty because he accepted, friend?" said the Tiger, laying not at the dance, but Peter gave a spot.
little, and as I had to have some or seemed to accept, too com- his hand upon the other's arm. no opening, and seemmel very visiting, or what?"
Just before he gave "No one there. We're house in-jexcuse for not coming when you preoccupied. placently the ever-growing The Richelieu of the Confer her up to her next partner he said, specting. Come on in and inspect. called, I invented a love affair. menace of the German sub-ence was, under no illusions as "Don't be late for our next, Betty. As a matter of fact, it's mine."But things didn't turn out quite the to the limits of what the re- I've got something I want to ask Peter explained with considerable way I expected, for you didn't seem The form in which he drafted presentatives of the Allies could you.
pride as he led her up the path. to miss me at all, and wouldn't the communiques which told do or as to the defects of what,
So I staked every- Very unlike Peter--to hedge in "I've just bought it, and wanted to even see. me: the news of the Battle of Jut when the last signature had that way about anything he wanted see what you thought of it."
thing on a last throw and bought land brought on him a storm of been appended, they had done. to say to her. She puzzled over it **Why bring me Betty thought, this house, hoping you might think criticism. He seemed insen- But freely as he talked on for two or three dances while her miserably, as Peter took her inside it wouldn't be so bad to live here sible to the effect they were most themes to his biographer partners wondered what had hap and began to extol the virtues of with me. It must have been a For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, et apply bound to have on the public he was reticent on this, when,pened to make the gay and spark the house. He ought to have the good scheme, for it's worked all mind. Those who felt cras accepting old age as lightly asing Betty so abnormally quiet. other girl. But I suppose she right. Are you angry with me, peration, however, did not Marcus Cato himself, and When he claimed her for his second chose it."
darling?** realise that, undismayed him- scarcely recognising its onset innce. Peter didn't seem in any It was an adorable house. Just Betty knew she should have self, he assumed the public till the end was near, he un-hurry to tell her what it was be the house that Betty would have been; but all her defences were 12010 BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG nerve to be as steely as his own sealed the confidences which wanted, so finally she reminded loved to live in with Peter. She down now, and Peter bent his head
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