It is no disparagement to Sir Auckland Geddes to admit
that the most successful British Ambassador who ever went to Washington was the late Lord Bryce. To stay-at-home Britons it would have come as a revela- tion to have learnt at first hand the warmth of the affection with which Lord Bryce was regarded in all parts of America, in the East, in the Middle-West and in the Far West. Of course, the author of the American Commonwealth had enormous advantages over both his predecessors and his successors ; nevertheless there were two factors which contributed to Lord Bryce's success which are within the grasp of his successors—namely, his accessibility and his absence of " side."
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