MR. BALFOUR'S RETURN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 71, 17 December 1919, Page 10

MR. BALFOUR'S RETURN

"If Mr. Balfour has not borne a lime-light-part in Paris, tho public instinct has its own'shrewd judgment of the servico covered by his laborious month* in that capital, and his return is rightly noted as tho completion of a worthy chapter in his career," 6ays tho "Observer." "There has been a. fine mipressiveness about tho loyal self-suppression wibti which Mr. Balfour has throughout the war thrown his splendid abilities, his mature diplomatic skill, and his vast knowledge and experience into the 'common stock.' Possessing in their ripest form tho characteristic qualities of our political tradition, lie has brought to the aid of the European resettlement the best that 'the old order' had to bestow." "His share in tiho negotiations has noli brought him much into the limelight, but his counsel and experience, have been of the greatest value nut only to his chief, but to his colleagues of other countries, mid socially lie has been jm gawit a success in Paris as he was in Washington," says the "Sunday Times."

To givo an opportunity for ex-service mm to settle on-the land, Birmingham Corporation Ims acquired, nl a cost of JIHT.WX), Canwell Hall and estate, near Sutton Coldlicld, from Mr. Philip Poster, a former member of Parliament for the Stratfoi'd-on-Avon Division. An area of SGO3 acres of excellent land "or the production of fruit, vegetable?,' and other crops will now bo at tho disposal of the City Council,