Seward daily gateway., 1925-03-20

Ironically enough It was the nOnOrS, he accumulated while working his way toward the premiership which, more than anything else, initiated against his ambition for the post and when it seemed almost surely his, kept it from him. Had he been born 30 years earlier he undoubtedly would have become prime minister. When he came to the threshold of that of flee, it was in 1923, the day of noble lords occupying No. 10 Downing St. had set. Prime ministers no longer were nominated from the aristocracy, but from the Commons.
 Like may other young men who came to be statesmen of the British Empire and peers of the realm, Lord Curzon was trained at Eton and Balli- ol College, Oxford At the latter he was president of the Union, the all embracing students organization many of whose leaders in after life DcCdLue pIOiillHeut
 Upon quitting the cloisters of OK ford with high honors, young Curzon polished off his university education with travel. Having become familiar with Paris, Rome, Vienna and the Rhine during his vacations at Oxford, he passed these places by for more extensive tours and went into Central Asia, to Persia, Siam, Korea, Indo- China and the Pamirs. He had the leisure and the purse and the purpose of a gentleman and travelled with thor Oughness, reading volumes beforehand and then recording his own discover ies and impressions for future books.
 Returning home in 1885 he entered politics as one of the private secre- taries of Marquis Salisbury, then the prime minister. He stood for parlia- ment immediately in South Derby shire, but was defeated Then turn ing to the constituency of the South port division of Lancashire he was elected and continued to represent that division until 1898, when he was made a baron. In his sixth year in the House of Commons Curzon re- ceiVed a post in the government be- ing made under-secretary of the state for India. At that time he was only 32 years old. His political achieve ments brought him promotion to un- dersecretary of state for foreign af- fairs and few months after he was made baron in 1893 he was sent to h. dia as viceroy and governor-general post he retained until 1905. Lord Cur Zon made a notable record in India, his regime having been highly satis- factory to both the ruling race and the native
 In the years that followed many honors were conferred upon him. OK ford made him ford 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 rais- ed him to a viscount and the Royal Geographical Society elected him pres ident, 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 contin- ued in that position throughout the war and the reconstruction period. He became secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1919 and continued in that office in the Bonar Law gov ernment after the Lloyd-George rule had been smashed by the Tories. Meanwhile he had risen two more steps in the peerage-to an earldom and then to marQuisate. There re-