The Alaska daily empire., 1922-01-23
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 IS ISDEAD;PASSES
 AWAY~SODDENLY
British .Iurist, Historian and Politician Dies Am
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l' ctcd on succeeding occasions. His n'ellec ual distinction and political ber of the Liberal Party. In 1886 ne was made uEdcr secretary for for 4ign affairs; in 1892 he joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the dnchy )f Lave lster; in 1894 he was presi lent of the Board of Trade and acted as chairman of the royal commission 0n secondary educatiOn and in Sir Henry pbol-Banncrma1's cabinet f1905) he was made secretary for roland. but in February. 1907, he was aprointed British Ambassador at Wa hington, and took leave of party 'olitics, his last political act being
 speech outlining what was then he government scheme for uni ~orsity reform in Dubin-a scheme which was promptly discarded by his successor, Mr Birrell
 Man of Letters
 As man of letters MT Bryce was ""ll known in America. His great wosk, "Thc American Common wealth. U888; revised edition, 191D was the first in which the institu- lions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of vview of a historian and a con stitutional lawyer and it at once be- came a classic. His Studies in His torv and Jurisprudence" G90D and 'Stndies in Contemporary Biography G903) were republications of essays, ap1 in 1897, after a visit to South Africa. he published a volume of Impressions" of that country, which had considerable weight in Liberal circles when the Boer War was be ing discussed. Bryce Scheme
 Throughout the World War, the famous statesman. diplomat and au thor was active in many efforts to ameliorate the condition of war vic tims. notably the Armenians and Poles. In 1917 details of what were known as the Bryce scheme" for a League to Enforce Peace were made public. They antedated by some two wears, Lord Bryce indicated, the pro nosal advocated by former President Taft and endorsed by former Presi dent Wilson and out of these and other discussions grew the League of Nations.
 Tn August, 1921. Lord Bryce in 2 lecture before the Institute of Poli ties at Williams College, Williams town. Mass, declared the Treaty O. Versailles had received nothing bu, censure in Europe and had resulted in Sowing the seeds of future wars. He declared that one unprecedented and painful feature of the war wa that "the victors bear as much re sentiment as the vanquished." H. saw danger of fresh conflict on tht Rhine, in the Tyrol, the Balkins, Rus sia and Turkey.
 Severe on Turks
 Lord Bryce was particularly severe on the Turks. whom he blamed fol starting European wars. He urged I | should be driven out of Europe and. in an appeal to the United States to succor the Armenians, said that neorly 100000 of them had been exterminated in one year by their hereditary enemies.
 The author of "The American Com monwealth." whom former Premier Balfour once called "the greatest liv l ing authority on the American con l stitutior." brought out another work in April 1921. a two-volume book on Democracy" It was a monu mental effort for a man of S3 years and was largely devoted to a com parative study of America as well as to an analysis of its press, it's party politics and the history of its popular institutions.