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New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Many Notable Conferences
AT Prime Minister'S Ho1,s.
Historic Building, Constructed in 1914, Has Be-,
Residence Of All Prime Ministers Since Davs J,
Walpole and Meeting Place Of English Diplomah

land. In the last years Of the nine
teenth century the Marques Of Sails
bury held fhe Office. In 1902 he was
succeeded by Arthur James Balfour, a
dominant fgure in England's political
life for the last forty years, having As
q youth attended the Berlin Confer
ence Of 1873 as sccretary.fo the Mar
guess Of Salisbury.
RalforT represents the traditional
aristocratic English statesman, in
whom is combined the diplomat and
politician. he was an Eton boy and
completed his university training at
Cam bridge. His frst entrance into
political life was as private secretary
to the Marques Of Salisbury in 1878.
In 1886 he WIS member Of the Privy
Council and in 1891 was First Lord of
the Treasury. From 1891 to 1902 he
was in the House of Commons and be-
came Premier in 1902, serving in that
office until 1905.
Lloyd George, Born In Slums,
IL Man Of Common People
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman was
Premier from 1906 to 1908, and in that
year H. H. Asquith, leading the Lib
eral opposition in Parliament, formed
a new Cabinet and became Premier.
Asquith, ambitious, liberal, energetic
"a man of the middle class--is in
sharp contrast with conservative and
aristocratic Balfour. He was born in
Yorkshire, and educated at the City of
London schools. He had brilliant ca
reer at Baliol College, Oxford, studied
law and became prominent member
Of the bar. He entered Parliament in
1885, was Home Secretary from 1892
to 1896, Chancellor of the Exchequer
from 1905 to 1908 and then became
Premier. His government declared war
on Germany, but Asquith favored 3
"wait and see" policy in the conflict,
and in 1915 there came demand, led
by Lord Northcliffe and The London
Times for more aggressive. government
action in the war. The Asquith gov
formed Coalition Cabinet. This Cabi-
net carried on through the war, and
in 1918 Lloyd George called for gen.
eral election. His government was sup
ported at the polls.
Lloyd George was distinctly a man
of the common people. He was born
in little cottage in the slums Of
Manchester. His parents were Welsh
and his father was the principal of a
church school. The boy was educated
in the church school at Llanystmdwy.
Wales, and entered lawyers office as
office boy. He studied law, and later
began general practice. In 1890 he
was elected to the House of Commons
as member for Carnarvan on a Liberal
platform.
Lloyd George was at first pro-
nounced Liberal, almost radical, and a
fire eater He was opposed to the
classes and to wealth. He was always
brilliant speaker, witty, and with
magnetic personality. He rose rapidly
in the government. He was president
of the Board of Trade from 1905 to
1908, Chancellor of the Exchequer from
1908 to 1916, Minister of Munitions in
1915 and 1915 and Secretary of State
for War in 1916 just before organizing
the Coalition government. With the
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

Russell, William Gladstone, Benjamin
Disraeli, the Marquis of Salisbury,
Arthur James Ralfour, H. Fl. Asquith
and Lloyd George. The house has been
associated with all the greatest mo-
ments in English history. Here Lord
Liverpool received the news Of Nelson's
victory at Trafalgar. and Napoleons
defeat at Waterloo. 1t was here that
Lord Palmerston determined England's
attitude in the American Civil War and
William Gladstone watched the prog
ress Of the German armies toward
Paris in 1871. From the beginning of
the World War it was the directing
force Of the Allied campaigns against
Germany.
The Cabinet Room, where all i'm
portant meetings are held, perhaps has
the greatest historic interest. It was
here that the English Cabinet held it's
midnight sitting on August 8, 1914, to
decide the, question Of war with Ger
many. Belgium had been invaded and
the Channel ports were threatened. r.
H. Asquith was Prime Minister. Lloyd
George, who has said that this mid
night session was the most dramatic
moment of his life, was Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Lord Haldane. was
present as Minister of War, and Wins
ton Churchill as First Lord Of the Ad-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

to put down revolutions, and directed
by men of the highest mercantile
ability, whose main function will be
to increase productiveness and stop
waste.
Whatever forms reconstruction may
take, Christianity will have it's part
to play in making the new Europe. 1t
will be able to point to the terrible
vind!cation Of its doctrines in. the
misery and ruin which have overtaken
a world which has rejected it's valua-
tlons and scorned it's precepts. 1t is
not Christianity which has been Judged
and condemned at the bar of civiliza-
tion; it is civilization which has de-
stroyed itself because it has honored
Christ with it's lips, while it's heart
has been far from Him. But a
spiritual religion can win victory
only within it's own sphere. 1t can
promise no Deuteronomic catalogue of
blessings and cursings to those who
obey or disobey its principles. Social
happiness and peace would certainly
follow whole-hearted acceptance of
Christian principles; but they would
not certainly bring wealth or en-
plre. :. 1t is only in spiritual
sense that. the meek spirited can ex-
pect to inherit the earth. Neverthe-
less, it is a mistake to suppose that a
Christian nation would be unable to
hold its own in the struggle for ex-
lstence. A nation in which every citi-
zen endeavored to pay his way and to
help has neighbor would be in no
danger of seryitude or extinction. The
mills of God grind slowly, but the
future does not belong to lawless vio-
lence. In the long run, the wisdom
her children"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
BY Otis Peaboiy Swift
From 2 te s6Vsat 2 EeYopedM BNreast
LONDON, l4arch 1s (By Mail)

LONDON, sfarch 1e (Bv Mail)
70. 10 DOWNING STREET, Lon.
don, probably is the most impor.
= tant 'pzivxtc residence in the
world.
Il Is the flrst house id row or SINH.
lar three and hxlf story brick dwell.
ings that face on the dark, narrow
blind alley Of Downing Street, openins
on Whitehall between the Treasury
and the Foreign Office. London fog has
grimed the whitewashed bricks. There
Is little irpn railing along the side-
walk and two steps lead up to = plain
oak door with faniight above. There
Is = wrought iron knocker, a lions
head, and below it brass plate.
First Lord of
The Treasury
No. 10 Is the official residence Of
Premier David Lloyd George, and has
been the home Of the Prime Ministers
Of England who have preceded him
throughout the last two hundred years.
Through the small door have passed
tho rulers Of the empire since the days
of Cromwell, and from its rooms the
destiny Of the nation has been guided
in war aud peace.
To-day thss door opens and shuts to
the members Of the Supreme Council
OF the Allies. Aristide Btiand, Pre-
mier Of France; Count Sforza, delegate
from Italy, and Baron Hayashi, the
Japanese Ambassador, are daily visi-
tors. Seated about the long table Of
the Cabinet room, they confer within
the same walls where George Canning,
Lord Liverpool and the Duke of Well
ington struggled with the war and
postwar problems of the Europe Of q
hundred years ago.
But for all it's power and authority
No. 10' is a simple and unassum
ing house: There is no pomp Or ritual
Of oficialdom about it. In appearance
it resembles thousands, of private
houses that line the residential streets
of London. The entrance to Downing
Street is through the high, gray painted
wooden fence Of the famous downing
Street barricade," said to have been
built against Sim F9in demonstrations,
but really constructed to prevent un-
employed parades from massing before
the Premier's residence. There is q
policeman at the gate in the "barri-
cade," but no one is prevented from
entering or questioned as to his mis-
sion. Another policeman stands across
the street from "No. 10," keeping an
eye upon the door, but all who knock
are admitted. The residence of the
Premier is IS accessible as any house
in London.
Sir George Downing Built
Historic No. 10 in 1914
Simplicity marks all the appoint
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office Of Premier, LLOYD Ceoros,.. 8,
eral views were largely raodiSsa - y
ne is now ranked among the cnss.. g
tives more than the liberal rroun ! !
Three Powerful Leaders
Refuse to Accept Titles
Thus three men. represeut;nx !
three classes of England. have la y Y
country in turn. Arthur James ~ ~
four. aristocrat; II. H. Asquith. ~ ~ e
middle classes, ard David Lloyd Geo,ssss' -
man Of the common people--ali hse'
made No. 10 Downing Street AZ ~:
home. It is interesting to mote 'as'' as'
none OF these men, the most nousss.; -;
figures in England, has accepted ~ -
titles. Naturally they could havs =,
any rank or orders that thev v;si.S -
Lesser men, for little parts thev cs ~.
played, have become lords and eayIs =. {
the years Of war. The leaders arc : -, =
Mr." Balfour, "Mr." Asquith and aasss vea,
Lloyd George. -
The position of the present vovs..
ment is secure, although Asouith ~. ~
leading the liberal "Wee Freess on,H ~
sition in Commons. is making fE f1ss
fight to overthrow tse present easr rss
ton Cabinet. 1t is said that the aW.. a,
Frees" are hoping for a general elss
tion in the spring, and a return ~ :.
power. Meanwhile the Labor nan
has become a powerful unit.
Some political students believe III:
England will have a Labor cab;rs.
within the next ten years. at has h'ss. sr
to come" they say. "It will be an a.. a..
pertinent, and it may not succeed h, bs
with the growth of the Labor nartr a. i.
is inevitable that the experiment +. i
tried"
David Lloyd George. Prime Min;ss.,
and head of the coalition, lives at N,
10 Downing Street to-day. Who win i
the next occupant? Will he be leadr
af tho EnOlSch Tobo, ,,,r%,,c
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Ex-Kaiser Retains Rank
In Almanach de Cotba
William Is Still a Field Marsha
in Turkish Army and ADM.
raj i'm Three Nayies
Frors a Special Correspooien

BERLIN, March 12.-The 1921 ed.
tion of the famous Almanach de Gotta
just published, does not allow the \.
cent drop in the Hapsburg market /,
lower the reverential tone with wbics
royalty is approached. Monarchs nov
in retirement in Swiss and Holland Il.
sorts appear in its pages with some, i
not all, of their former glory. +
The ex-Kaiser apparently retains II,
rank as field marshal in the Turks
army, admiral of the Swedish Nor.
wegian and Danish navies and hon.
orary captain general ii. the Spansi
army. He has, however, discarded al
his British and French. naval and mill.
tary orders and decorations. On the
other hand, he still is described i,
Doctor of Laws of Oxford UniyersiT
1t appears that most of Germsnys
twenty-odd ex-kings and ex-princss
are now living quietly as private cia.
zens in the states they formerly GOV.
erned.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
By r. A. Parker

w 1 the Yer Very + Rev Dean f St
Pauvs, William Ralph Inge
think of the United States of America
knew that this extraordinary church
man. undoubtedly the intellectual giant
in the Church Of England, was an un-
qualified opponent Of prohibition.
knew Of his pessimi istic views concern
ing the future Of European civilization
Did he include oug country in his black
vision of the almost inevitable debacle
Of Western civilization? I went to find
out. He received me graciously enough
opening himself the door Of the dean
cry of st. Paul's-deanery and door
designed by Sir Christopher Wren
himself.
But the gloomy dean" never grants
interviews. Whenever he has mes
sage to the British public he delivers
it through the great Tory press, de-
livers it in singing, lashing words
Directed now against the muddling
politicians Of Great Britain, now at
the bishops Of his own Church for
failing to understand or meet the So
profteers, now against the cruel senti-
mentalities of social reformers, now at
England itself as "a paradise of human
refuse" now at the maniacal madness
OF European civilizatitn---alway the
gloomy Deans" words can impress
themselves upon that chaotic mass OF
= prejudice, sentimentaliNn, cupidity
which goes by the name of public
opinion" The good natured Britont
positively egg Dean 1nge on. He il
becoming. AS great an idol as George
Bernard Shaw.
As a spokesman for the status quo
the voice Of passing aristocratic
minority, and Incorporating but al
ways eloquent Tory, the gloomy DEAN
might have stepped out OF the pages Of
Peacock. He is in that line Of great
churchmen who light up the great Eng.
lish novels. The bishops are shocked by
the deans 'wickedness" and "naughti.
ness" intellectually speaking. But
they respect his brilliant scholarship
crudition in science and achievement
< in mysticism.
Understands Liberty Turning
Her Back on United States
What was the deans views on prohi.
bition in America? Piercing ewes
that stared out Of sharply chiseled
head were whitening in their dis
approval. II c&n we'll understand why
the Statue of Liberty has turned her
back on the american continent =
Ny geography deserted ME. As the
representative Of country that coun-
tenanced prohibition I felt myself be-
coming smaller and smaller under the
relentless gaze of this statistical
churchman.
He refused to say just Whist he
thought Of America--that is, for pub
lication. But luckily he had expressed
his opinion in sermon recently de-
livered in st. Margaret's, Westminster.
He would permit me to read that. He
scurried away. The dean moves swiftly
for all his sixty years, and in that
chill Of deanery one has curiously the
sense Of breathing temporarily in the
pages Of an old-fashioned Victorian
novel.
waited for his return--and for that
devastating blow to our national pride.
What else could it be, the opinion Of
the man who had written such words
as these:
sCivilisation lies prostrate, who as
4 maniac, after burning her house and
numbering her children, is bleeding to
death from self-infirtcd wounds, her
wealth and credit destroyed, her hopes
of feaaonable and orderly progress
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

that he would not, that he sometimes IS
does"
Dean Inge has always reiterated his
conviction that there is no real con-
fiict between religion and science. The
newest discoveries Of science fortify
the doctrines of Christianity, which, as
he interprets them, are principles of
the head rather than Of the heart-"a
white light but not cold"
Science has not yet come to its own
in forming the beliefs and practice of
mankind, because it has been so much
excluded from higher education, and so
much repressed by sentimentalism un-
der the wing Of religion.
"The nation that first finds practical
reconciliation between science and
idealism is likely to take the front
place between the peoples of the world.
I'm England we have to struggle not
only against ignorance, but against a
deep-rooted intellectual insincerity,
which is our worst national fault. The
Englishman hates an idea which he has
never mot before, as he hates the dis
turber of his privacy in steamship
cabin; and he takes opportunities for
making things unpleasant for those
who utter indiscreet truths. AS Samuel
Butler says: 'We hold it useful to
have certain lumber Of melancholy
examples whose notorious failure shall
serve as warning to those who do
not cultivate a power of immoral self
control which shall prevent them from
saying, or even thinking, anything that
shall not be to their immediate and
Oalnah1e advantaro
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Used as Official Residence
OF British Government

After Downing's death the house
passed to the government, and has
since been used as an official resi-
dence. The government always has
been the landlord. owning the property
wants. Sir Christopher Wren remodele
the house, and it was at first used as
the residence of the First Lord Of the
Treasury. Passages still lead from No.
10 to the nearby Treasury Building.
Later it became traditional that the
Prime Minister should be also First
Lord Of the Treasury, and nearly all
Prime Ministers have concurrently filled
the other Office.
Among the famous Prime Ministers
who occupied the house were Sir
Robert Walpole, William Pitt the elder,
William Pitt the younger, George Can
ming. the Duke of Wellington. Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston. Earl
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Number 10 Downing Street.-The House Of Diploma
Simplicity Rules in Official
Home Of British Government
Treaties, boundaries and Affairs of State Are Fre-
quently Discussed Over. Breakfast Table ia
Crimy Dwelling Where Resides Lloyd George

ments Of the house. Simplicity has
marked the public lives Of the nc,, who
| have lived there. itia gimplicitv that
| is surprising, so little is It associated
In the public mind with the affairs of
state. A tall, energetic man, wearing d
light raincoat and q bowler hat, walks
down the street, rings and is admitted
to No. TO- He Is Count Sforxa. Italy's
delegate to the Supreme Council. A
short, stout, jolly man. stops before the
door. He is Winston Churchill, Co
ionial Secretary. He smiles as the door
man salutes him. A few minutes later
BOTH men leave, and the door opens to
Lloyd George, short, q little bent, his
bowler hat. With him is Philip Kerr.
his secretary. Lloyd George walks rap
idly, swinging his cane. The men 90
through the arch under the Foreign
Office and start to cut across the empty
park toward st. Jawes's Palaces where
she delegates from England, France,
Italy, Greece and Turkey meet to at-
tempt to right the tangled boundaries
OF the Near East.
The history Of No. 10 goes back to
1874, when 1t was built by Sir George
Downing, then Secretary Of the Treas
ury. George Downing, born at Salem, in
massachusetts, Colony, came to England
in 1647 after his graduation from Har-
ward. He was twenty-four years old
and, having studied law at Harvard,
began practice in London. He became
. supporter Of Cromwell, rose rapidly
in favor and finally entered Cromwell's
Parliament. He was Cromwelrs Ambas-
sador to Holland and finally Secretary
of the Treasury. At this time he re-
ceived the grant of the property in
Whitehall, later known as Downing
Street. and built the row of houses
there, himself occupying No. 10. Down
ing was apparently an opportunist, for
with the restoration Of Charles ii he
turned monarchist, Loyalty supported
heads out Of England. For this he be-
came Sir George, and, having invented
a method for tanning kid, opened a
glove manufactory and prospered. Sam
uel Pepys, who knew the great man,
tersely described him as "a double faced
traitor but good Oficial.n
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Pointing Out Causes
And Effects Unpopular

Those who are able to trace causes
and effects further than the majority
must expect to be unpopular, but they
will not mind it if they can do good
by speaking. The logic Of events will
justify them, and science has a new
weapon in official statistics, which will
register at once the disastrous effects
upon wealth and trade, which the in
sane theories of the demagogue will
bring about. No agitator can explain
away ascertained figures; if we 60
down hill we shall do it with our ewes
open. Things never turn out either
so we'll or so badly as they logically
ought to do, Prophecy is only an
amusement; what does concern us all
deeply is that we should see in what
direction we are now moving"
The Dean had lent his sermon on
America to one of the bishops visit
ing the Lambeth conference. But now
he finally returned with it and placed
the finely written manuscript in my
hands. The first page was entirely un-
expected. The second was surprise.
was amazed at the third, and COM
pletely thunderstruck as / finished.
The unheard music Of "The Star
Spangled Banner" was in the back
ground. The Stars and Stripes seems
" nhAuti pctWScIl tuc llllcS' Nv WAS an
amazing tribute to our country--amaz.
ing coming from this stanch defender
and champion of eighteenth century
England, and the aristocratic and pro-
fessional classes now 'sbeing taxed out
of existence" America is the one hope
of western civilization!
He recognized, with scientific pre-
cision, the immense, the unsurpassed
geographical advantages of the Amer
ican continent, bounded on the east and
west by great oceans. He realized the
great advantage of united govern
nsants-in contrast to Europe--ovey this
vast territory, .precluding internecine
civil wars such as that which had
driven the small, overcrowded coun-
tries Of Europe almost to mutual de-
struction. TO this cooperative sui
eide" the watring countries Of Europe
had surely been bound, the Dean inper-
y vent on. But for the advent OF
sne = & american army they could not have
trophe. 's.s
He pointed out the great advantage
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-11
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 are a Harmless Substitute

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-11
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