All the world knows what Mr. Bell has done in
the last twenty years, and particularly during the war, towards the building of that bridge. He has been the Ambassador of understanding between America and Britain. His work has been so great and so beneficent that if it were Mr. Bell's only claim to our gratitude it would be enough. But besides this Mr. Bell is one of the sanest and most reasonable of public writers. He has the happy faculty, too rare in journalism, of never being "awed by rumour," never swept away by an emotional torrent. He never allows his judgment to be overwhelmed by his feelings. He keeps a cool and equal mind, no matter how distracting the situation. Sonic men have been able to perform this feat in a manner by observing an attitude of frigidity and aloofness, but Mr. Bell throughout has kept the perfectly human touch He has been fair and just to everybody without giving any one a shadow of cause to say that in having no enemies he has only managed to have no friends.
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