We share to the full the country's deep regret for
the death of Lord Curzon which occurred early on Friday, March 20th, in his sixty-seventh year, after a necessary operation which proved to be too severe for a man of his age, who was never physically robust. It was illustrative of his indomitable courage and interest in life that until two days before his death the doctors issued to the Press bulletins that they knew to be unduly optimistic, for fear, as the Lord Chancellor told the House of Lords, that " the patient should ask to see a newspaper." We have written of his career in a leading article and will only say here that the country has lost one of the most versatile of the leading men of our time, one of the hardest workers who have given a lifetime of service to our generation and a statesman whose know- ledge of world politics was unequalled at home or abroad. The Government and the nation will sorely miss a man who had reached unique distinction by his qualities and his character.
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