Lord Brentford
Lord Brcntford's death awakens regret as that of many greater men would not. For Sir William Joynson-Hicks was not in any sense great. He was a man of deep convictions and narrow views, and apt to let his judgement be swayed by his emotions. The raid on Arcos which he engineered in 1927 was a particularly stupid piece of work, which definitely worsened international relations. In his fight against the revised Prayer-Book, on the other hand, he showed at his best. As a man he was thoroughly likeable, enjoying life, enjoying office, endeared to the public by cartoonists, winning the reputation of a success- ful politician, if not of a statesman—in a word, essentially Jix. Almost the last article he wrote, if not actually the last, appeared in the Spectator last month, under the title, "The Toll of the Roads,"
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