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he kept in touch. "I consulted Curzon, "BoDAT Law came to

who had not made my house after his Boat and us to the attitude with the King and asked me to

audience26

he

up his

proposed to take.“

continue in my 'offee na Foreign The only thing certain about Secretary and to give him all Bonar Law was

that he

Was the help I could in forming a against Lloyd George and the Government and supporting hit continuation of the Coalition. administration. This I willingly The hours toket by slowly as undertecže to do." the vital Thursday meeting of the Torio, loomed closer.

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had been a

ACROSS

3 From which you come clean!

(8).

8 Not extreme (0),

Remembered and rang again? (8).

In , way, And each hour seemed lo victory, Curzon, who had been

11 Sent back (8). bring Cutzon's triumph reartr. Lloyd George's "enrt-horse,

Beaverbrook For whom else could the Torien as

called hini, 12 What ceg-heads Lack? (4), choose onto

Chamberlain had could at last Icek forward to 13 River of Wales? (6). been voted down?

being his own Foreign Secre-18 Black-eyed girl? (5). tary, fier from interference and 19 Nautical barrior (4). intrigue. But it was a victory 22 Prominently displayed (8) not in fortissimo, as he had 24 Tat about the opporite? hoped, but in diminuendo.

(B). 25 Really sarcastic (6). could comfort pot, back 10 that winter of

Next in line

"On Wednesday morning (he wrote) when I saw Bonar Law

Sull, Cumh

he mid that though his doctor himself, as he hnd not velord his reappracee foreign affairs

as a party leader, he himself 1022, that there was still time. had not the inclination nor the moral resilienes

the tasks.

vatives, and Ll. G.-and I re- presenting the Liberals.

"The object was to discuss the question whether it was fair 10 the Conservative Party, and

"To every one (Curzon wrote) hands, and they enabled us to reached him straightforward, to bring on a he had a reply... in the part in the most friendly

before the course General Election

astonishing fashion." meeting of the National Union (of Conservatives).""

In the end, Churchill goes on, the decision was in favour of an lection before the meeting ci the Conservative association

"George Curzon, who was sitting in a armchair, got up and sald, with great spirit, All right. I'm game. As we were going downstairs (1 was conducting my guests to the door), Birken- head said to me, 'How fine of Curzon to do that. What a good sportsman he is.'"

this of

After all, it could not be Enid

to undertake that Bonhr Law was a physical-

ly at Prime Minister-or even

"Ho know well from informa- a willing one. Lion and ppeals that had that if he came out against Chamberlain at the

ing a Covernment would

it near probably devalve upon him. But he had not the appetite for the

travesty of facts and evidence It was all over. Curzon was Carlton Club meeting next day, (Lloyd George) reached the free at last. The years of the latter would be beaten and limax however when in muy bondage to the Coalition were that the responsibility of form- ing sentences, ond with a voice done with charged with emotion, he asked me not to forget the great scenes in which we had taken part, and the common comradeship of the war, and thanked me for the loyalty which 1 had consistently shown both in speech and action to him . . . .

'Lost soul'

Curzon records that he was not, from this monent, invited to any further. meeting by his colleagues in the Coalition, "I could not, or at least did "being regarded either as a base

question the sincerity of deserter or as a lost soul. these utterances, sharply as they "I made up my mind, how contrasted with the treatment I ever, that until after (the Con-

not,

task.

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It must, therefore, be Curzen, He was the leader next in line.

On Wednesday morning the premiership seemed within his and. Twelve hours later it had slipped once

more through his igers. "In the evening.” wote, "when I saw him (Bonur

he

Wednesday: The time

for decision

---(London Express Service.)

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(8).

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London Express Service.

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