The Bismarck tribune., 1925-03-20
LORD CURZON
NOTED ENGLISH
LEADER, DIES
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ing his own discoveries and impress
siOns for future books.
Returning home in 1886 he enter
ed politics as one of the private Sc
cretaries of Marques Salisbury,
then the prime minister. He stood
for parliament Immediately in South
Derbyshire, but was defeated. Then
turning to the constituency of the
Southport division of Lancashire he
was elected and continued to repre-
sent that division until 1893, when
he was made a baron. In his sixth
zon received post in the govern
ment, being made under-secretary OF
state for India. At that time he was
only 32 years old. His political ac-
Movements brought him promotion
to ounder-secretary Of state for for
eign affairs and few months after
he was made baron in 1898 ne was
sent to India as viceroy and COVER
nor-general, a post he retained until
1905 Lord Curzon made notable
record in India, his regime having
been highly satisfactory to both the
ruling race and the native.
In the years that followed many
honors were conferred upon him.
| Oxford made him lord chancellor in
1907 and the next year Glasgow made
him lord rector. The honorary de-
gree of doctor Of laws was conferred
by Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow
and Durham. In 1911 the king raised
him to viscount and the Royal Geo
graphical Society elected him presi-
dent, which office he filled for three
years.
Lord Curzon was named one of the
imperial war. cabinet members in
the Lloyd George coalition govern
ment and was made leader of the
House of Lords in 1916. He con-
tinued in that position throughout
the war and the reconstruction per-
iod. He became secretary OF state
for foreign affairs in 1919 and con-
tinued in that office in the Bonar
Law government after the Lloyd.
George rule had been smashed by the
Tories. Meanwhile he had risen two
more steps in the peerage-to ar
earldom and then to marquisate
There remained only a dukedoms tc
be obtained and Lord Curzon general
ly was credited with a burning am
bition to achieve this highest OF
titles for those outside Of rdya
blood.
1t was at that time that his ac
cumulation of hOnors operated
against Lord Curzon in his ambition
to become the British prime minis
ter. When Bonar Law retired il
1923 because of ill-health there wa
, besides Lord Curzon only one othe
man regarded as likely for the post
Stanley Baldwin. In Curzon's favO
:; there was his long and notable rec
:. ord in politics and the government
service, while Baldwin virtually wa
a novice in politics, but had prove
a strong chancellor of the excheque
who had settled the American deb
- question with honor and satisfa'
y ton. Weighing in opposition to Gun
o zon was the new twentieth centur
4 tradition against appointing as pre-
q mier a peer who could not meet al
G tacks on the government in tn
House of Commons. Hence, M
= Baldwin, being commoner, receiN
ed the place.
20 Lord Curzon consented to renal
. in the foreign office in the BaidWi
,. government. He went to Lausanr
l. to lead the Allies in making the
q peace treaty with the Turks, who ha
re-entered Europe and avengt
against the Greeks the expulsion I
the crescent from Europe in II
ID World War. The treaty let the Turl
back into Europe and returned
/. them a large, part Of what they hi
re lost in the war For this Lord Gu