* * * * The unexpected death of Sir Eyre
Crowe has caused. deep and widespread regret. He had spent the greater part of his life at the Foreign Office in laborious and extremely efficient work and had risen to be Permanent Under-Secretary. He seemed to live only for his work. Although his mother was German and he had been educated largely abroad he was intensely English in all his political thinking. For some years before the War he never ceased to warn successive Secretaries of State of the German danger. When the War came an ignorant part of the Press and public attacked Sir Eyre Crowe and demanded his dismissal because of his German connexions. It was enough to make those who knew Sir Eyre Crowe feel hot with shame for their countrymen. Fortunately his services were retained, and perhaps only Lord Balfour and Mr. Lloyd George could describe fully all that Great Britain owed to him during the Peace Conference in Paris. Probably we should not exaggerate if we said that this faithful and overworked official gave his life to his country.
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