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WHY CURZON WAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS' WAITING FRENCH RED CALLED UP.

NOT PREMIER.

THE KING'S VETO DIS- CLOSED IN A BOOK.

The notable disclosure has been made that the King-exercising the royal prerogative--decided against the late Marquis Curzon's claims on the Premiership when Bonar Law resigned.

This revelation, and a striking account of the dramatic circum- stances in which Lord Curzon re- ceived the most crushing blow of his career are outstanding, fe- cures of the Earl of Ronaldshay's third volume of The Life of Lord Curzon."

Letters from Bonar Law, touch ing on the question of his illness and his successor, are quoted.

Mesopotamia,

|

LISTS.

CRADLE ENTRIES FOR ETON,

MADE TO SERVE IN MOSCOW ARMY.

COSSACK TRAINING.

PARIS.

According to trustworthy In- formation received in Paris, the

Summer holidays for thousands. of boys and girls ended last month in England with the reopening of the public schools and boarding schools. Most of the public schools: will have their accommodation tax ed to the fullest extent. Such schools as Eton, Winchester, Rugby, leaders of the Third International' Wellington, and Charterhouse have in, Moscow are dissatisfied with waiting lists extending over several their French colleagues, whom they years. Some of the "newcomers to

strongly criticised.

WILA

Etan were entered for the college charge with lukewarmness and while still in their cradles. Owing whose propaganda methods to the length of the waiting list, this is their, first opportunity of becoming Eton boys.

3. Marcel Cachin, the French "At present Eton's waiting list Communist leader, who is visiting

an official of n covers ten years,' scholastic agency told a Press re- Russia with several members of the presentativeAt other leading French Communist Party, public schools there are waiting severely taken to task by the Red liste over periods of six or eight also Lord Ronaldshay prints years. It is, however, possible to lenders, who told him in so many notable extracts from other letters get a boy into a public schoot more words:" It is apt by means of from Bonar Law to Curzon, writ easily now than was the tase a few electoral campaigns and ballot ten some months earlier, emphasis years ago. This is mainly due to ing his desire to clear out of Meso-new schools having been opened and boxes that you will conquer the potamia, and his view at the time to existing schools having extended capitalist class-but with rides and when the quarrel with the Turks their accommodation by instituting machine guns." was unsettled--that tirent Britain should not go to war for Mosul.

Lord Curzon's chance of being Prime Minister was killed by the fact that he was a peer, and that the Socialist Party, which had bes come the official Opposition, was at that time unrepresented in the House of Lords, This fact has long been known, but until now it has not been stated that the doci Mion against Lord Curzon was made by the King, although it is obvious that such a decision could oply have

made by the

Sovereign.

been

Lord Ronaldshag leaves no doult on the point. He recalls their cumstances in which Lord Curzon, summoned from the country to London by Lord Stamfordhain, he King's Secretary received the knock-down blow:"

"The great moment of his life which was to place the crown upon along and meritorious career of service to the State was, surely, at hood.

new houses. At least two or three new public schools, ench with ac- commodation for 400 boys, have been started in the last few years, and they are almost full. Another reason why parents have less diff culty in getting their sons into public schools is that not so may boys of the right age are available. During the war there were fewer marriages, and, in consequence, fewer children born.

"Girls schools are very busy places in these days. The old idea of employing a private governes of to boarding school n 12 or 13 is dying out, and girls are packed years of age. One or two of the hest girls schools have waiting lists.

"Crowning Ambition.!!

necessary to take a rest abroad. and Lord Curzon, having returned from Tours, found himself called on to preside at meetings of the Cabinet pending the Prime Minis- The state of pleasurable anti-ter's retura. cipation in which he travelled up to town was heightened by the com

News of the Prime Minister's ments of the morning papers, found in the moming Fress, he health did not improve," it is add- ed, and when.. it became known jotted

almost down, an

that instead of returning to Eng- animous opinion that the choice land, he had heen, advised to take lay between Baldwin and myself. There was no question as to the that Lord Curzon's friends should asen voyage, it was natural enough immense superiority of my claims, he telling him that the crowning and little doubt as to the inter-ambition of his life. was about to tions of the King. The crowd of

see fulfilment.' Press photographers at Padding: ton and my house-deceptive and even worthless as these phenomena arent lens: indicated the popular

belief."

"Painful Interview,"

At 2.30 pini. Lord Stamford- ham called at 1, Carlton House terrace. There is no need to dwell upon the interview, which cannot have been anything but painful either to Lord Curzon or to his

visitor

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The results of. Bopar, Law's voynge were disappointing, and afterwards he wrote: During the trip on board the boat I was very miserable, suffering pain all the time; but I trusted that after I got on land I would feel the benefit of the fresh air."

Lord Ronaldshay recalls that Bour Law asked Sir Thomas Hor. der to visit him in Paris, and that when the famous physician.express ed grave dissatisfaction with his was Lord Stamfordham's condition, and suggested a

con. unpalatable task to convey to Lordsultation in London, "Bonar Law Curzon the decision of the King realised that the burden of the that since the Labour Party con- Premiership was one which he was stituted the official Opposition in no longer able to bear. the House of Commons and were unrepresented in the House of Lords, the objections to a Prime Minister in the Upper House were insuperable."

Lord Ronaldshay observes that Lord Curzon himself had foreseen such a possibility some years be fore, and had expressed doubt whe- ther in such circumstances even such an outstanding member of the peerage as the late Marquis of Salisbury could have been Prine

Minister.

"Yet," adds the bingrapher, "in his heart of hearts he could not. Teally bring himself to believe that with his long record of public ser vice behind him he could be pass-

And he asked leave submit for consideration certain aspects of the case which he thought might not have been given

ed over.

due weight.

"Galling Experience," "When, however, he learned that it was too late and that Mr. Bald win had already been summoned to Buckingham Palace, bitterness Hooded in upon his soul. And in the account which he committed to paper of this, the most galling ex- perience which life had brought him, he poured out his pent-up feelings in a torrent of agonised

despair.

years

Such,' he exclaimed, was the reward I received for nearly forty of public service in the highest offices: such was the man- ner in which it was intimated to me that the cup of honourable am bition had been dashed from my lips, and that I could never aspire to fill the highest office in the ser- vice of the Crown.'

He spent the afternoon with Lord and Lady Crewe, it is added, "explaining the whale situation, so far as it affected him. It was a pathetic moment which we shall pot easily forget, Lord Crewe wrote a few days after- wards."

Lord Curzon was at Montacute; the Somerset house of which he was

then tenant, when on Monday, May 21st, 1923, he received a letter from Bonar Law announcing his resigna

tion:

No Choice."

The consultation had been held in London on the 18th, and bad left him no choice, he said.

To mark their displeasure with their French colleagues, the Red lenders decided that the executive committee of the Red International. would include only three French- her out of sixty members."

But note was in store lor M. Cachia, for, in his capacity of honorary member of the Red Army, he had to undergo period of military training as a reservist.

Sword No. 481,

The authenticity of the incident is vouched for by a Russian news- lished in Kharkof, which says that paper, the Arasmiya Armia, pub- Reservist Cachin Accomplished his period of training in the tat Divi- sion of Red Cossacks at Pros- kourofi. It continues:

When our guest had just com- pleted a visit to the Soldiers' Home at Proakouroff, the com- mander of the unit to which the honorary Cossack Marcel Cachin belongs told him: Private Cachin, draw your equipment;". whereupon M. Cachin donned the regulation uniform and was séry- ed out with carbine No. 121,742 and sword No. 481.

A few minutes later Marcel Cachin on horseback

reported himself to his superior officer. When he was liberated. Private Cachin gave back his rifle, sword. and uniform, only keeping his Army paybook testifying that he had undergone a period of train- ing in the 1st. Cossack Division.

WOMAN'S GIFT FOR BOY CRIPPLE.

BABY WHO WAS FOUND

· DESTITUTE..

The bequest of a rich woman to little red-headed crippled boy, Percy Perrin, aged 7, in Dr. Bar- nardo's Home at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was revealed last month.

Miss Diana Genevieve Harvey, of Marston Gate, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, second daughter of the Inte Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, has left the boy £1,200 upon trust. The matron of the homų said: —

the home

Miss Harvey came to stay at an hotel in Tunbridge, Wells two years ago. One day she stopped to. inspect pleased with, what she say that she

and was asked if she migh; take two or three of the cripples for a drive,

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One of the boys I chose was Percy Perrin, who was suffering from infantile paralysis and could not walk. He sat on Miss Harvey's knee and had great friends with

I understand,' he added at the end of his letter, that it is not her. customary for the King to ask the Prime Minister to recommend his successo in circumstances like the present, and I presume that he will ust do so; but if, as I hope," be accepts my resignation at once, he will have to take immediate steps about my successor."

Lord Ronaldshay observes that this, if indefinite, wae at least not discouraging

to Lord Cur- ion's expectations.

Bonar Law's attitude with re- gard to the Turks and to Mesopo- amin is the subject of an impor tant passage. Dealing with Cur zon's Lausanne conference with the Tarka, Lord Ronaldshay writes:

"The failure to reach a decision was causing much anxiety in Eng- land; and in his correspondence with Ford Curzon Mr. Boner Law was exhibiting a growing desire to see the negotiations at Lausanne brought to a speedy close at almost any cost. The Prime Minister was, Lord Ronaldshay recalls that for in fact, seriously alarmed at the some time Bonar Law's health had proportions of the Budget, and was not been good, and early in Aprit subjecting every head of expendi- 1923 Lord Curzon" wrote in some ture to rigorous scrutiny. That we alarm from Tours, where he was should make ourselves responsible himself undergoing his cure, in- for heavy outlaya in nursing to quiring, if there was any founda- adolescence the infant kingdom of tion for the stories which were in Iraq seemed to him quixotic and

irculation. The Prime Minister's unnecessary.

As regards Mesopotamia," "he wrote on December 5th, you know Your rumour is without foun- how keen I am, if we can, to get dation. I have not been up to the out of it.'. mark for a month or six-weeks, but He never used pressing his I have no intention of resigning view on this point upon Lord Cur- unless my health should make it zoo; and seized the opportunity, impossible to continue."

provided by the state of affairs de Bonar Law, nevertheless, oh-picted by the latter at the end of Berves Lord Ronaldehay, found it the year to emphasise it once

(Continued on next Column). again.

Bonar Law's] reply was reassur-

ing

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Boy's Thank You."

boys for

After that, whenever she took the a drive, she asked, for Percy. When she left Tunbridge Wells the sent presents to the home, and Percy wrote saying. you."

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A boy who must surely be destin Fed to become one of the most famous organists of his time played the service at St. Margaret's, West- minster, recently.

Gordon Thorze, a fifteen-year-old Southfields boy, started to learn the organ only three years ago, yet he played the entire service.

Most of the worshippers stayed The following year "she came at the end of the service to hear. again to the home and asked his voluntary. They left their seats specially for Perer. She was much and clustered round the choir stalls struck with his mental develop watching the boy, spell-bound. ment, and told me she hoped it would be possible when he was older to help in his education. But we had no idea that she intended to leave this money for him.

Percy is a brainy child and will do well with the money.

im-

Passers-by gathered round the door of the church and stood listen ing. Few of them knew, however, that the voluntary was an provisation by the musician.

"I Did Not Compose It." He has not yet been told about it.

"I did not compose it," the boy He would not understand and I said to a Press representative after- "I just improvised as I do not expect he will be told forwards.

went along. some time.

When Miss Harvey died Perey

"No, I was not a bit nervous. come along to the church every was very sorry, All he had left of presents she had given him was a Sunday morning to help with fire-engine, and he practices and in any way I can, so clockwork brought this to me and asked me to was used to the service, and I am always happy when I ain playing look after it for him.

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An. official at. Dr. Barnardo's Home said:--

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"I am going to make music my career. I am hoping to win -- scholarship at the university and I shall study music there. My great- est, ambition is to become organist in a great cathedral."

He glanced in the direction of Westminster Abbey, on whose door. step St. Margaret's standa. Per

"The bay was destitute when admitted in 1923. We found him to be a cripple and sent him to the home, where he became quite personality. We shall use the in- come from the money for his educa tional advancement and for the im- provement of his disabilities"

The £1.200 will revert to Drhaps I might reach the Abbey," he Barnardo's Homes after the trust said. has been discharged. Miss Harvey, who left 2102,325, with net per- sonalty £102,925, bequeathed £1,000 to the Church Army and 2500 to the Feban Homes, Goudhurst, Kent.

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Then he went as a choirboy in the Chapels Royal and has taken part in many royal ceremonies,

It was while he was singing at Windsor that he became acquainted with Mr. Dawson, the St. Mar Playing At Five,

garet's organist, who taught him and gave him his great opportunity, Gordon began playing the piano Gordon established a world's record when he was five years old and his by passing the severe L.R.A.M. mother taught him till he was ten. (piano) examination four months (Continued at foot of next column,)" after his 6fteenth birthday.