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Disaster followed the intervention of Rumania, but Sir Henry Wilson

loyally dissociated himself from Vic tendency to blame Colonel Thomson and got him appointed to the Supreme War Council at Versailles. After the War Colonel Thomson joined the Labour Party. In the Labour Government of 1921 he was made Air Minister, and at the same time was .created a Peer to strengthen the Party in the House of Lords. In the present Covent- ment he returned to the Air Ministry. • He was an excellent Air Minister, enthuSiatie and full of technical knowledge. But that was not all. He ably took part in general debates in the House of Lords. He was, as he deserved to be, trusted and frequently consulted by the Prime Minister. He was unmarried and the Peerage becomes extinct.

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