It is long since the first rumours were heard that
Lord D'Abernon was leaving Berlin. Now the appointment of Sir Ronald Lindsay to succeed him is definitely announced. Lord D'Abernon has lived down many prejudices and gained long ago the confidence of the Germans. -They as well as ourselves have reason to be grateful to him for great services ; not least for his last important piece of work in preparing Berlin for the Treaties of Locarno. During very difficult years he and Lady D'Abernon have made H.M.'s Embassy take a place of social influence which has been of great value and which no other Embassy in Berlin could have taken. We hope that he will enjoy a long leisure at home devoted in part to public work such as we seldom fail to offer to men of his abilities and expe- rience, and in part to the congenial occupation of the improvement of the British thoroughbred, one of the many subjects upon which he is an authority.
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