27 DECEMBER 1924, Page 2

-We much regret to record the death of Sir George

Buchanan, who was British Ambassador in Russia before the War and up to the time of the revolution. He was not a diplomat of commanding intellectual power or one who could brilliantly bend circumstances to his own Vshes. But it would be difficult to point to any one of our Ambassadors who was more devoted or less self- _ seeking. On several occasions he took the risk of personal . humiliation when he courageously approached the Tsar, warned him that revolution was approaching and showed him how it might be averted. When it was a question between- his own dignity or comfort and the interests of civilization and humanity,. Sir George Buchanan never hesitated. Such an entire absence of self-consideration cannot be too highly praised.

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