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lieving implicitly in the divine rights of
grand dukes and Shahs.
Two years, and off he went again,
this time to Paris. A nice city for a
young diplomat. Official society a trifle
stiff, but the cream of the gay Russians,
the English haut monde we'll represent
ed and plenty of those amusing and
superbly rich Franco-Americans and
Anglo who found their spir-
itual home in the French capital.
Helps Shape New Policy.
Before he had time to tire of Paris
they recalled him to London, having
use for man of his experience and
acquaintance now that British policy
was developing along new lines under
the pressure of the entente cordiale, a
sentimental term which since the war
has lost its meaning both in London
and Paris, but which at that time might
be translated as you and against the
boche"
He stayed three years in Whitehall
completing his diplomatic education,
meeting every one from permanent of
hcials to secretaries of state, grasping
how things are done at the Headquarters
of the foreign policy organization: and
then they thought him the best pick in
SIGHT for the post at The Hague, which
was rendered more important than it is
today because 1t was then a sort of
minor Geneva, the center of interna-
tional action-and intrigue.
In the year before the war they
wanted man to superintend the f.
nances OF Egypt, then very tightly held
under the British imperial hand. This
flnancier had to be au fait with diplo-
macy and trusted servant of the for
eign Office, which before the 1922 Dec
laration of Egyptian Independence ran
the kingdom of the Pharaohs much as
country squire runs an outlying but
valuable part of his estate He of neces-
sity also had to be experienced in Orien-
tai ways and psychology and acquainted
with Near East problems and the rani-
f1cations Of Russian and Turkish policy.
Lindsay was the very man. Out he
went with the official title of under
secretary OF state for finance to the
Egyptian government. He was married
now-to charming American, Martha,
daughter OF the Pennsylvania Senator,
Donald Cameron. Cairo was quite gay
IN the season. Lots of Americans and
Britishers Of Lindsay's world there.
War Brings Racial Changes.
But next year this social scene was
shot to pieces. The war broke, Kitch-
ener sat in the London war Office, the
Turks besieged Egypt and the under
secretary OF state for finance was
forgotten in the dust and blood and
clamor. Throughout the war he stayed
where he was in Cairo. Some one re-
membered him long enough in the Sec
ond war year to make him grand
ofhcer of the Order of the Nile (Which
would have been a fat lot of use If
the Turks had overrun Egypt or the
back and seized the British colonieS)
In this pause it is not uninstructive
20 glance aside for moment at Ronald
Lindsay's brother, the Earl of Craw-
ford and Balcarres. Baron Lindsay of
Crawford (tfat goes back before Il43)
Baron Lindsay of Balcarres (633), Earl
OF Balcarres, Lord Lindsay and Balniel
Q651, that triol and Baron Wigan
(qutte recent title, created 1926, art
patron and connoiSseur, trustee of ma
ttonal galleries and museums. boxer,
teetotaler, archeologist, professional
architect philatelist, politician-it is
not .uninstructive to take a glance at
him, because here you get the Lindsay
clan characteristics in full flower, un-
curbed in their development and mani
festation by the self-discipline of long
years of diplomatic training. If Rom
aid looks like baron, this Lindsay,
touch of wildness about the massed
hair and the fighting CLEAN in the
Nordic eye.
Voluntarily Accepts Duty Call.
The war arrived as he sat in the
Elizabethan library of his northern
castle, pleasantly SEGREGATED from the
din and racket of the struggle to live
by few thousand acres of parkland
(this family derives much wealth from
marriages to heireSseS-added to min
eral wealth under, and the growth of
an industrial city over a large expanse
of their lands). He was As, fit, but
unframed to arms. He arose and went
forth.
The military authorities of Aldershot
were aStonished when he presented
himself as a volunteer for enlistment
In the army medical service as a pri-
vate for the duration of the war. How
ever, he was human material They
took him. Next morning he was out
drilling with the rest of the recruits.
In few weeks he was in France.
Six months later man he had en-
ployed as political agent, but who,
having had some territorial training be-
fore the war, had been commissioned
and sent out with regiment of Kitch-
ener'S army, ran across him behind the
lines,
Bans Use Of Royal Title.
The tWenty-seventh earl and teMth
baron was taking tea to a member of
his company who was under arrest In
the town hall for some minor de-
meanor.
MY lord" began the agent. auto
matically standing to attention before
this tall, commanding. mustached and
named private. He got no farther. "Eh,
what?" raped the private, testify
swapping to attention, tea in one hand,
the other at salute "Damme, sir, are
you addressing me? You'll find no
lords here, sir. My name is Crawford.
Kindly don't forget that
1t took Crawford long time to get
his corporal's stripe. He found it easier
to become member of the government
subsequently, and a cabinet minister
after the war
The end of the war and the peace
conference brought Ronald Lindsay,
whose wife died in the last war year.
relief from his Cairo post. He was sent
to Washington as first secretary. HIS
promotion thereafter was rapid. The
Marques Curzon-an eighteenth CEN
fury great noble born out of his time,
a man so imbued with the pride of birth
that although he served under both
Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin dun =
ing their partnerships. he never invited
either of these commoners to a private
social function in his house-the Maj =
guess Curzon of Kedleston was secre-
tary of state for foreign affairs, while
the head of the Lindsay clan was now
in the government and active in the
House of Lords. Ronald Lindsay was
not likely to be forgotten by this regime.
Gain Early Promotion.
He was promoted to counselor at the
Washington embassy within a few