The Washington herald., 1919-02-16

| bassy they say they do not know
/ whether the French ambassador and
Mime. Jusserand will come back
/ with the President or not: likewise
at the Italian embassy. Lord Read
| ing is coming back with the Presi-
dential pair. but not, alas. to stay.
J He Will remain only long enough to
! wind up his affairs before resign
, ing as ambassador OF Great Britain.
! His real life's work is Lord Chief
/ Justice and that Is demanding all
! of his attention He and his wife
were most popular the short time
they were in Washington and were
, the center of a storm OF entertain-
ing. 1t is more than likely that
Lord Reading will be kept on the
go every minute no matter how
short his visit here.
Ever since 1t was practically GER
tain that Lord Reading would not
return as British high commissioner
and special ambassador. there has
been much speculation as to who
is to be his successor. For a while
1t appeared that the Right Honor
able Lord Edgar Algernon Robert
Cecil, third son OF the third Mar
quis OF Salisbury. some time par
l,amentary under secretary for
foreign affairs and minister of
blackade in the Lloyd George war
cabinet. might receive the appoint
ment. But the last few days have
developed the fact that the ambas-
sadorship has been offered to the
Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird Borden,
premier of Canada. The appoint
ment OF either of those statesmen
would be highly acceptable to the
American public.
Sir Robert Borden has been Premier
of Canada since 1911. He is a man
about siNty-five years Of age. His
wife. who is said to be a very charm
ing woman, was Miss Laura Bond,
daughter of T. II. Bond, of Halifax.
Sir Robert has had a very busy ca
reer. After studying at Acacia Villa
Academy, Horton. he was graduated
at law and was called to the bar in
1878. He had extensive practice in
the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
and the Supreme Court of Canada
He was also engaged in several prom
inent cases before the judicial com
mittee of the PrivY Council and was
rister'S Society from 1893 TO 1904.
The honorable D. c. l. OF Queens
University, ontario, was conferred on
Sir Robert in 1903; the L. l. D. st.
Francois Xavier University in 1906,
and McGin University bestowed SINH
lar honors on him in 1913. He repre-
sented the city and county of Halifax
in the house of commons from 1895
to 1900; was a member for Carleton in
1908. Again he represented the city
and county of Halifax from 1908 to
1916. He took the leading part in
many important debates between 1896
and 1900. In February, 1901, upon the
resignation of Sir Charles Tupper. he
was elected leader of the Conserva-
tive Party in the house of commons.
Some other honors received by Sir
Robert are the Grand Cross. the Le-
gion of Honor (FrenCh), the Grand
Gordon of the Order of Leopold CBel-
gian) and the Freedom of the City of
London, 1915.
Sir Robert does not devote all of
his time to work and study. He ID
very fond of golf and plays a fine
game; is also very clever at lawn
tennis. Then when he can find time,
he likes nothing better than to slip
away on a fishing trip. We are
bout to lose the most enthusiastic
fisherman in our Cabinet, Thomas
Watt Gregory. the retiring Attorney
General. Mr.. Gregory goes very
frequently to Seneca on the Po-
tomac about twenty miles above
Rockville. where the fishing is par
ticularly good. The late Grover
Cleveland, when he was President.
used to go up to Seneca to fish. Mr..
Gregory is often accompanied on his
fishing trips by Judge William Hitz
and sometimes by Mrs. Gregory and
Mrs. Hitz. They spend the week.
end at the canal lock house, kept
by the locktender and his wife, Mr.
Penniields at lock in the canal.
two miles south of Seneca.
The coming of Sir Robert-or any
new British ambassador in fact-is
sure to be followed by a mad whirl
of entertainment in his honor. Just
now. with most of the diplomatic
corps abroad, the Spanish Ambas-
sador and Nine. de Riano are the
only Europeans left of ambassador
ial rank. and they are consequently
the storm center of diplomatic en-
tertaining. Some of the other en-
voys playing prominent parts as
honor guests are the Ambassador Of
Chile and Nine. Matthew. the always
popular Swiss Minister and Nine.
Sulzer, the Minister of Salvador and
Nine. Zaldivar and the new Dutch
Minister and Nine. Cremer.
The Matthews have established
themselves at the big new headquar-
ters of quite few in Official life who
suspect they may be kept here by the
trend of public events until after the
arrival of hot weather. The Matthews
are a very interesting couple. He is
q small man, about the height of