2 JULY 1921, Page 11

It is with great regret that we record the sudden

death on Wednesday of Lady Randolph Churchill, the wife of one promin- ent statesman and the mother of another. There is universal public sympathy with Mr. Winston Churchill, engaged as he is at this moment with the most important of public affairs, and especially those connected with the Imperial Conference. But alas l our statesmen are now only too familiar with the law that private sorrow must bow to public necessities,