3 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 17

We congratulate the Royal Institute of International Affairs on Sir

Abe Bailey's splendid gift of £5,000 a year in perpetuity, which was half the amount required to endOw the Institute. Mr. Lionel Curtis' name does not appear in the Press accounts annoimcing the gift, but it is to his public-spirit and devotion that the Institute owes its inception and its record of solid achievement.

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