News of a graceful act in our political world leaked
out in the Press, and as the principal actor, Lord Reading, has publicly stated the facts we feel that there is no impropriety now in our recording them. A number of friends of Lord Oxford's, by no means all Liberal politicians, combined to raise a substantial sum of money from which they were able to secure for him a certain income for life and present him with a capital sum. It is many years since " Mr. Asquith " was earning money for himself at the Bar. Since then he has devoted his time and energies to the services of his country and a large proportion of that time has been spent out of office, which is not likely to tempt him again. He must be remembered for ever as the man who took the chief responsibility for leading the country into the War. ,Apart from that those who know him will always remember him as a man of. cool courage, -high. character, and a, very great intellectual ability, who never for a moment in his, life was influenced by personal ambition or self-seeking. Our public life and all concerned are honoured in . this act.
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