6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 3

Sir Arthur Leo has been happily and generously inspired in

presenting Chequers Court to the nation as a country home for the Primo Minister, The beautiful old Tudor house which nestles under the Chilterns is famous for its historical associations and for its collection of Cromwell relics, and it is also a comfortable place of abode, within easy reach of London. The leading states. man of the day could not be more fittingly or conveniently housed during his brief holidays from Downing Street than he will be at Chequers Court. Buckinghamshire, where Hampden, Burke, the Russells, Beaconsfield, and many other eminent men of affairs have inherited or acquired homes, will now more than over be the statesmen's county.