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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1960.

THE MOST SUPERIOR PERSON

OURZON

PART II OF LEONARD MOSLEY'S BIOGRAPHY

IT

was just before he left Oxford, in 1883, that a

began to be circulated that

hools for the rest of his life.

was

verse

to yap at Curzon's

"My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,

I am a most superior person,

My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek,

I dine at Blenheim once a week."

When he was in his 60's and engaged in a mortal fight for his political future, he cursed the verse and wrote to his wife: "Never has more harm been done to one single individual than that accursed doggerel hás done to me."

But that was late in life. When he heard it the Best time, he laughed it off. Pictures of him taken at this time make it obvious why his friends frequently mention it their letters: 1 long to see your shapely profile again." He was tall and, becine of the harness he wore for his injured back. erect to the point of ramrod stiffness. His fee was sensitive and handsome, an the aquiline nose above the full, rather sensual mouth gave him the impression of always wear- ing a delicate smeer. But when he laughed, this disappeared.

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"Oh, George, how I do love your rosy Laura Tennant pi and laughing face," wrote to him. Laure was one of the famous Tennant sisters, of whom the eldest, Margot, was destined to become the most famous. All of them were either secretly or openly in love with Curzon. 11. was Margat who later

Engaged

wrote to in "as my 2 aldest and most trea- sured friend," to usk him to solve her mar-

riage problem.

She had two suitors.

One was the young and handsome Evan Char- teris. The other, con-

siderably ulder than

she was the Liberal leader H. H. Asquith

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is

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ford and Asquith).

"Dear George," she asked, "which shall I

take

MARY VICTORIA: SWORN TO TELL NO ONE.

(to a millionaire's

daughter) but afraid daughter)—but to tell father

for

In the new Government, Lord covered

she that

Was

an

Wis

He said: 'So long as you love her and dho loves you--that is all. You are not likely to make

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a mistake at your age, and she is old enough know her own mind," George Nathaniel Curzon was thirty-six years old at the time and. by now, an Under-Secre tary of State in Her Majesty' Government.

£6.000 a year

He gave her the same advice that he took himself when he Randolph was appointed Chan- American, immediately wrote of contemplated matrimony to cellor of the Exchequer but soon to a friend at the British Em- think of the future and choose clashed with Salisbury over bassy in Washington usking for for recuriŁY rather than

party reforms. He resigned and all possible details of her back- love. He told her to take As- called upon his young followers, ground and family. quith.

Curzon among them. to rally The news he got back Margot tuck hits advice, mar- round.

that her father was the famous ried Asquith and became the

So far as Curzon was com Chicago millionaire, Levi Lelter,

So everything was crranged, '- most famous hostess of the day, cerned he got no sympathy at and was, in spite of the sound of

Mary hnd closeted herself but never fold lær proud his-

his name, a convert from Dutch

her father and Tone band that Curzon had turned the all,

Calvinism 10

the Episcopalian with trick for hi

Church. His daughter had been into Curzon's financial status in- haptised a Protestant and named some detail. The old millionaire Mary Victoria after the English forced to provide his new soul- in-law with an annual slipend of royal family.

£0.000 a year, plus a marriage settlement, It was n 1tle less than Curzon had hoped for, but he wrole to Mary:

Snubbed

Curzon started his climb up the political Indder by slipping bndly at the dest rung. Ile had

the

recommended 10 Aght

A few days later, he rose in the House and in what The *Times called **: brilliant maiden speech" sharply attacked Loid Randolph. I was the Arst Ela in polite. demonstration

A wife

Curzon would never be one who stayed to get his feet wet once he decided a zhip was sinking.

It got him a nod of approval South Derby (as a Tory, of Britain's Hovercraft Industry

Lord Salisbury, the most by Land Randolph from now firmly established with course)

Churchill. among others. As a powerful patron in the land. His thee lest vehicles flying five Arms working on commer-candidate lie was something of political career was launched, cial projects from launches and a disaster. He talked down to With his talents, all he had to

voters, mostly mbers, or do was wait for preferment. Hovertracks to big river ferries,

gave them long lectures about They hosted Hovercraft Development Ltd., foreign affairs. with inventor Christopher Coc- his pompous phraseology.

He lost to his Liberal oppo- kereil as technical director and

nent, a mere party hack. a strong team of designers and

was surprised and is

Curzon engineers, 11 a new head-

hurt when Lord Randolph quarters at Hythe.

whom he admired and support

told him he was tarily They are giving general tech-ed. inical advice to the whole responsible for his own defeat

working

and that a wiser and willer up- industry And advance

including ponent could easily have won projects. milltary landing craft and jeeps, the seat.

The idol toppled at oner in He trans- Carzon's estimation. terved

bis admiration to the Such was his state of mind at Tory lender. Lord Salisbury. the beginning of the '90s when a Salisbury cermmended him to young girl of 30. naroed Mary Lelter. caine Into his the Tory divisional loaders at Victoria Southport, and, in the General life. It was, on her part, a case Election of 1886, George el love at first sight. Nathauled Curzon became an MP for the Arst time.

on

But their key work is on a Hovercraft potential 1,000-ion

in cross the Channel at over 100 miles an hour. Estimated eet for such a glant, which night be in service in about 1960, is £4,000,000.

But it could do the work of five or more 3,500-ton Channel ship ferries,

-London Express Service).

But he never forgave Lord Randolph Churchill for his snub.

In the meantime, he looked round for a suitable mate to shore the triumphs which, he on the way, had no doubt, werd The wife he wanted must be beautiful but also rich, witty but

also

well-bred, intelligent but also feminine. "Give me a girl he wrote about this time, "that knows a woman's place and does not yearn for trousers."

So far as Curzon was сол- cerned, it began as no more than a casual Artation. He met her at a ball in London and it was typical of him that, having dis-

began

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Curzon received this intelli- gence with no qualms at all at the beginning, but when more serious intentions kindle in his mind he began to have doubts. He knew his father well enough to know that Lord Scarsdale would still think

Lelters Jewish.

the

On March 3, 1633, they met again. Mary, who was travelling with her father and mother, stole away for a rendezvous with Curzon and when she come away in the early hours of the morning. her dearest wish bad come true. Curzon bad proposed and they were engaged to be

married.

She left with her parents,

and deliriously

yet happy. nuzzied. For, at Cuzon's urgent request, the engagement was to remain secret and she had sworn to tell no one, not even her father and mother.

What she did not know was that, for the moment, Curzon was afrald to tell his father. It

was not until 1895, two years later, that he wrote:

Blessed Mary. I have been home and told my father. I had to make none of the apologies or explanations or defences that you imagined.

will get on "Of course we with wholever your father's generous enough to give us... You kald last summer that to do all we wanted to do we ought to have £10,000, but I have no doubt we can get un perfectly well with less."

Just in time for the wedding, Salisbury made him Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and chlef spoltesman for the Government's foreign policy

the m

House of Communa Curzon was content. He had a beautiful wife, an Income, a millionaire for father-in-law, and the confidence the Tory Party.

He settled back to prepare for the next phase of his career--- the phase that would, he conf dently believed, take him to the highest office in the land. He sealed the first peak not long

afterwards. In 1898, Lord Salis- bury appointed Him Viceroy of

India.

→(London Express Service).

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