Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-22

visage and a marked sentimental COM
pick. He brings to bear on all prob
lens of politics and law, from divorce
to coal, the same sort of profoundly
humanitarian feelings which John
Galsworthy, whom he resembles facial
~, airs in his novels from the safe
position of a romancer.
He began to practice law at 26 and
got a judgeship % years later. During
the war he was in charge OF COM
mitee appointed to deal with the QueS-
ton of aliens and after the war he was
made chairman of the memorable coal
commission, which produced minority
report in favor of naturalization
which report. to the dismay of the
coalition politicians who appointed 1t,
carried the chairman'S signature.
He has Welsh church affiliations and
il governor OF Keble College and Pussy
House, two oxford colleges with Left
tendencies. AS the Lord Chancellor
he Is head of the legal profession and
dispenses legal patronage; he also ap-
points the bishops. He lives a quiet,
minister Abbey.
Londonderry Made Air Chief.
Lord Londonderry is Ramsay Mac
Donalds concession to the old aris-
tocracy and landed gentry interest.
Tall, lean, well-colcred, this dandai-
cal marquis has a vast ancestral cas-
tie in Wales, another OF equal dimen-
sions in Ireland, a palace amid the
park land in the industrial north and
one of the biggest houses in Park
Lane, London.
He owns immense tracts of valuable
town property and about the only sec
ton of coal fields in the British islands
which makes money. He is safe man
who is useful to his party because he
gives the official Tory reception on the
eve Of tn opening of Parliament, doing
things up magnificently and footing
the bill. He keeps to his own high
Tory circle and just at present is giving
harborage and a good time to the
daughters OF Alfonso Of Spain.
This Tory was first commissioner OF
works in the last Baldwin ministry and
before that he served spell as parlia-
mentary undersecretary OF air, to
which department he now returns as
its political chief.
Gore Directs Works.
Ormsby Gore is another concession
TO the old aristocracy, but he is also
a concession to youth. He Is first
commissioner of works, and as such
is responsible for the upkeep of parks
the least important in the premier's
gift, but it can be made spectacular
and Of considerable aid in maintain
ing the popularity of political regimes.
OrmSby Cores predecessor, the vet
eran Socialist Lansbury, was the first
to recognize and demonstrate this.
He turned some of the tended lawns
in the West End parks into playing
fields for the kids, and provided an
ornamental lake in Hyde Park ada
cent to Buckingham Palace with IA
cilities for open air bathing. Given an
other six months, he would have in
stalled open-air cafes with licenses to
sell alcoholic drinks, although he Is
an abstainer.
Ornsby Gore can do this now, but
he probably won't. He is 80 years
younger than Lansbury and an ortho-
doX Conservative. The son and heir
of one lord he Is the son-in-law Of
Lord Salisbury, who is the chief figure
! in the Cecil family and the heredi-
! tary leader of the old ariStocracy. He
| got into politics and into Parliament
| in his early tWentieS because it was
! expected OF him as the son of his
! father and the husband OF his wife,
| and, since he had toured Britain and
the colonies extensively, Baldwin made
| him undersecretary of the colonies,
/
postmaster general in his emergency
cabinet.
HaiIsham New War Minister.
Lord HailSham was born Douglas
Hogg. the son Of the noted educa-
| tionaliSt, and after q career more
noted for athletics than for intellec-
tual triumphs at Elton, that most
aristocratic OF British public schools,
/ 80 m Tnd
British Guiana to grow sugar. but
after eight years he thought the law
offered more scope for his peculiar
genius.
When his studies were interrupted
in Britain's quarrel with the BoeT
farmers in South Africa he FASTENED
to take q hand in the resultant war
and was wounded first ranker who
saw war and who survived to become
secretary Of state for war. But his
knowledge Of the technique of war was
not brought up to date In the world
struggle: he was much too important
q politician on the home front to be
spared for combatant duty.
On returning from South Africa he
took his law examinations and started
upon a meteoric career that took him
to the attorney generalship in 1927
and put him in the House OF Lords A.
lord chancellor six years later. He
has a hasty temper and controversy
is his strong point. He prefers the
.saber to the rapier in debate.
His appointment to the war min.
istry increases the -Beaverbrool
forces in the cabinet He made cleal
his dislike for the high priest of tn,
, empire free traders. who then was try
, ing to split the Tory party, by an
nouncing that the best way Of dealing
with a mad dog was to shoot him
= That remark offered Lord Beaverbrool
/ an opportunity to take action agains
+ Hailsfam on the ground Of public In
; element to murder. But the philo