The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-08
Mainly About People
A Weekly News Letter
ByT. p O'CONNoR
TYRELL, GREY'S EMBASSY AIDE
THE MOST LE|SuRELY OF MEN
Like His Chief Is Home Ruler and Their Coming to Wash
ington Would Seem to Augur Definite Irish Policy
By T. p. O'CONNOR.

, in rrcccnt years. He also died COM
parativcly young.
or Cosmopolitan Training.
Sir William Tyrcll is tho son Of dis
tinguiShcd AnGlo-lrish Indian judge VIII"
ut one time helped TO govern some mil
lions of HnduS in the British cmpl>~.
Though Irish To tho core, he has had .
very cosmopolitan training. He went to
Ealliol. the crack college of oxford uni
vcrsity, which sent ASuuiih. Miner,
, l.orcburn, CurzUn and others of Eng.
lands most brilliant statesmen into pub
lie life: but Tyrcll also took n course at
Bunn university. He thus had excellent
qualifications when. following his faith.
crS example he became n public servant
by entering tho foreign office.
Tho foreign office still remains sonic
thing Of a preserve for British aristo-
Gratis. for almost alone it docs not ad-
init by competitive examination. open tn
all Corners, n limited number of young
men taken either from aristucratic fnmi-
lies or official families being alone al
lowed to compete But the examination
is very stiff. and requires a knowlcdr
! of modern lanGua gcs, and the competitor
.
means 10 keep up his position MS Nom
her of tho hest social circles and best
! clubs in London. which is quito imDOssI-
bile with tho scanty salary allowed for
cign' office clerks N their earlier years.
The clerk. if he h" lucky. will uti-
| matcly land in a foreign first secretary
! ship. then as foreign ambassador. This
| hierarchy is preserved. as n rule, with
great strictncss and whom grave politi-
| cal necessities compel tho government
, to go outside for some such big figure
, MS Reading. Bryce or Gray there Is much
J hcartburning.
Reputation For Languor.
, But this exceptional foreign office
has special. pcculiaritics. which make
! him often. a favoritc character in our
comedies nf manners. Faultlossly dress
! cd. languid in manner. with monoclc
always in his listlCss-lnoking eyes he
! walks through tho drawing rooms Of
eager hOstcssrs. In his official life he
gets credit for CARRYING tho lciSurclincss
common to most of our public offices
to lengths on which lesser departments
never cntcr-arrivinC at his office, II is
said, Mt tho. comfortable hour Of |
o'Clork and disr"sInG Of tho dr"ary in
tcrval before lunch in the careful mani
curing Of his nails and assiduous read
; ing Of his Times newspaper. But this
! cxaEg"ration perhaps owes It's currency.
especially as to hours. to tho fact that
, foreign office have often worked through
! long hours nj night in times Of crisis.
| TyrclI never belonged to this class of
! foreign office clcrk.
HOW ireland Is involved.
In tho meantime. this appointment OF
| Grey and Tyrcll two avowcd homo rll-
org, 10 Americas capital, raises a deli
, cute question with regard 10 Lloyd
GEORGES attitude To- ireland. Tho pro-
mirrs whric policy foT a year hns hccn
! TO cvailc all definite statements on that
I question. leaving himself orcn either to
propose hie settlement or To run away
/ from tho whole eVaspcrul1nE and cmhar-
RAISING question by proposing nothing
, Mt all. on thr rNCu$" that Ireland Is in
, too disturbed n state.
Tho latter course would relieve him
! Of all danger Of collidinE with Carson
! ana Eonar Law. hut ! believe IL very
| doubtful if NiScount Groy would n 10
, America on such terms. 1t was Lloyd
! George who courtcd him. not he Lloyd
! George.
II is no who compliments Lloyd
! George by acting ae ono Of his officials.
not Lloyd George who compliments him
/ hv offering him n great and difficult
! office for which he could Get nobody
! else
Predecessors warned Premier.
Tho issue must then mise after Gr"r's
! arrival n Washington. whether he will
! confirm or gn counter 10 the warnings
! given by his two predecessors, Sir Cecil
| Spring Ricr and Lord Reading.
I know that SprIhg-Riro. though a
I government official. was really good
/ Irishman and knew America well, DID
, over and over again warn the govern