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-A 1 SPIRITED VINDICATION.
LONDON, 9th June. Mr. Asquith received an ovation at Oxford on Saturday, where he delivered the Romanes Lecture on "Some Aspects of the Victorian Age." Lord, Curzon, who presided, evoked a storm of enthusiasm by declaring that among the aspects of the past Victoiiaii age there was none which the University and every section of the public regarded with such abhorrence and disgust as the gross and gratuitous defamation of the character of our public menViscount Selborne, in: a speech, referred to the Billing trial, and asked his audience whether, even supposing that the alleged Black Book existed^ we were going to the Gel-man Government for that compilation to find the truth about English men and English women. He added that his party repudiated as an abominable lie the suggestion that Mr. Aequith's life was not clean and noble, or that he was not a loyal and devoted servant of his King and country.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 138, 11 June 1918, Page 7
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