Mr. A. S. Cochran With great regret we learnt last
week of the death of Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran. Though he never sought publicity, he could not avoid being known here during the War as an immensely rich American who made princely gifts to the Allies, especially to Great Britain for the Red Cross, and other useful purposes, nor as the owner of a magnificent yacht which was lent to the Admiralty, with the result that he held His Majesty's Commission in the R.N.V.R. Though he hunted in England while his health allowed, it was in the United States that he was best known as a sportsman, collector of books, and philanthropist. What we parti- cularly wish to record here is that no American had a deeper love of our country, and, as the Spectator has par-. ticular reason to remember gratefully, no American was more anxious to promote both Anglo-American friendship and the aims of the League of Nations in any way that he could discover.
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