1 MARCH 1919, Page 3

On Tuesday it was announced' that Mr. Geoffrey Dawson had

resigned the editorship of the Times and had been succeeded by Mr. Henry Wickham Steed. Mr. Steed is a well.known writer on foreign affairs, and particularly on the history and politics of Germany and Austria. He was educated abroad, and has been the Times correspondent in Berlin, Rome, and Vienna.- The statement published in the Times gays no reason for Mr. Dawson's resignation, which might have been attributes! in the circumstances to illness, or weariness, or a lack of doh e to early on his work. We found the explanation, however, in certain papers not owned by Lord Northcliffe. It was contained in a letter which Mr. Dawson wrote to Mr. John Walter.