Sir Valentine Chirol The name of Sir Valentine Chirol, who
died on Tuesday, will be held in lasting honour by journalists. His work was a model of industrious research and an honourable desire to state the truth without fear or favour. There has never been a special correspondent with higher ideals. He understood his business as being not to serve some pre- conceived policy but to study the facts on the spot and to report them as he saw them. He would have had a pro- found contempt for any Editor who wished him to send " convenient " messages. It was for him to say what he had discovered, and for the Editor to base his opinion on the facts as stated. He began his career in the Foreign Office, but after spending only four years there he took to roaming about the world as a correspondent first for the Standard and afterwards for the Times. In 1892 he became the Berlin correspondent of the Times.
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