Mr. Balfour's tribute was no less eloquent. He remarked upon
the difficulty which a King has in communicating with his subjects. "In these democratic days we all spend our lives in explaining. The King cannot explain." But King Edward possessed some unanalysable power of genius which. enabled him, "by the perfect simplicity of his personality, to. make all men love him and understand him." To think of him as a dexterous diplomatist was to belittle him. "He dial that which no Minister, no Cabinet, no Ambassadors, neither- Treaties, nor protocols, nor understandings, which no debates,, no banquets, no speeches, were able to perform. He,, by his.
personality, and by his personality alone, brought home to the minds of millions on the Continent the friendly feelings of the country over which King Edward ruled." On behalf of the Labour Party Mr. Enoch Edwards added a few words to declare "the earnest and sincere sympathy of the great mass of the working classes of this country in the loss that the nation has sustained."
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