TIMELY HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 290, 8 December 1932, Page 7

TIMELY HONOUR.

PIONEER OF PEACE.

Unveiling of Portrait of Viscount Cecil. TRIBUTE TO GREAT STATESMAN (British Official 'Wireless.) RUGBY, December 7. Mr. Stanley Baldwin unveiled in the great hall, University College, London, a portrait of Viscount Cecil painted by Philip de Laszlo. Tho portrait was presented to Lord Cecil as a tribute to his services in the cause of international co-operation and good will. It may eventually become a public possession and hang in the I National Portrait Gallery. A replica has been made for acceptance by the j League of Nations. A fine tribute to Lord Cecil's work as a pioneer of peace was paid in a letter from the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald. Mr. Baldwin said that in Lord Cecil there was a curious mixture of knight and priest. If they placed a cowl round the face of the portrait they would have Savonarola (the great Florentine preacher and reformer). Lord Cecil was a great idealist and a man of ideals. He was bound to clash at times with those who were engaged in what, for want of a, better term, were called practical politics. Speaking for those who might be called practical politicians, Mr. Baldwin said he could say that no one had ever questioned the depth, purity or sincerity of Lord Cecil's motives. The National Portrait Gallery was the natural destination for the portrait of a man who at the same time was a great Englishman, a great European, and a great citizen of the world.