In the Public Eye

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 24

In the Public Eye

Earl of Beading. "From Cabin Boy to Viceroy" might well serve as tho title of a life of the Earl of Beading, who has just retired from the office of, Viceroy of India, It is true of him, and more extraordinary still, that he paid his first visit to India in a sailing ship as a skipper's drudge. When in 1921 he received at Calcutta the honours due to a Governor-General, he recalled this early incident ia his life, and remarked that on his first visit the had not been received at a public banquet. He has been described as '' the most friendly Viceroy who ever landed in India." Lord Beading has spent five years of his life as the ruler of the destinies of the people of India, and he now plans to Teturn t« London to follow some form of commercial activity to rehabilitate his ' fortune, which is said to havo suffered considerably as a result of his residence in India. It is stated that notwithstanding the fact that he has been paid a salary of £40,000 per annum during his residence in India, and'that in addition his expenses account has been very considerable, he has been compelled to draw very heavily upon his private fortune during his Indian incumbency. He was formerly Lord Chief Justice of England, but he is debarred by custom from re-entering a profession that returned him at least £70,000 each year prior to his stepping into public life. The Earl of Beading took ' ' silk in 1898, and attained a great reputation at the English Bar,j where he conducted many notable cases prior to entering into politics as Attorney-Gen-eral. He was one of the central figures of what is, known as the '-'Marconi Scandal," but was exonerated by a special tribunal set up for the purpose of inqniring into the matter. He was created a viscount in >1916 in return for valuei ■ services during the crisis of the war,; and received an earldom ithe following year for his work on a financial mission to the . United States. He and Lady Beading entertained the King and Queen of Belgium during their visit to India last yeai. Lord Beading is now seriously indisposed,; and it is said that his illness, coupled' with financial considerations, has brought :about the earl's return to Great 'Britain quicker than was intended. ' ■■ M. Zinovieif. A cable message from Biga this week states that M. Zinovieff, President of the Leningrad Soviet, has been deprived of all authority. Zinovieff has exerted' a sinister influence on the city of Leningrad, and is to-day the President of the Third (Moscow) Communist International. He is the son of a Polish Jew, his real name being Ovsey Gershon Radomsyslsky,. and he is now 42 years old. His boast is that since he first drew breath he has been at war with all forms of law and authority. In his early manhood he lived for a time in London, a political refugee from Leningrad, then known as Petrograd, where he had been concerned in a plot to murder'the late Tsar. Zinovieff was trusted by no one except the Bolsheviks of Leningrad and Moscow, and he las

now apparently lost the confidence of his compatriots in the former city, but he is still feared by all. Even his oldest friend, Lenin, when he was alive, is said to have feared him. During the revolution in Bussia Zinovieff was given a free hand in Leningrad, and exactly what this meant is shown by the deathroll, in that city during those parlous days. Zinovieff is a man who boasts that he "would gladly wade through a sea of blood to establish 'his purpose.'" Tho Kerensky Government was overthrown, and Leningrad was transformed into a welter of blood at the orders of this one man. Property in the city was seized, thousands were brutally murdered, and the infamous Cheka was -established with Zinovieff at its head. But now this autocrat, who grew out of Russia's troubles, has himself been relegated to tho background as a man who cannot be trusted, and one whom the State is better without. Mr. F. W. Jowett. If all those people who have gained in health, knowledge, courage, usefulness, and happiness from the municipal and national work of Mr. Frederick William Jowett were to come in a body to thank him, there would need to be a very large reception-room to accommodate them. And the central figure I of that great gathering might reflect that he had been launched into the j world with fewer advantages than most of those whose gratitude he had won. At the age of eight, Mr. Jowett went to work in a Bradford textile factory, and ten years later he became a weaving overlooker, a position which he occupied until he was 28. In 1887, when only 23 years old, he came first into the public eye as a frequent writer to the newspapers, and this eventually led to his. devoting the whole of his time to public work. Bold agitator and industrious worker, as was evident by a speech made during the Easter holidays in which he addressed the IndependenjrLabour Party Conference, declaring ; a "Bight-to-Live" war against his opponents, his native city of Bradford owes him a great deal. He was elected to . the Bradford City Council in 1892, and six years later he was appointed chairman of the Health Committee, a position which he held without a break. for eight years. He led the great fight for school feeding, and won it—directly for Bradford and indirectly for the whole country. He also carried through .a scheme for slum clearance and house building, and this 23 years ago. His Parliamentary services started in 1906, when he was elected for West Bradford. He was defeated as a pacifist in 1918, but four years later was returned for East Bradford, becoming First Commissioner ■■ of Works in Mr. Bamsey Mac Donald's Labour Cabinet. He was again defeated in 1924 by a Liberal in a poll of over 30,000 votes, lfts opponent having the very small majority of 66. In 1924 he was made a Privy Councillor, and he has been chairman of the Labour Party Conference since 1921. He has written extensively .on Socialist questions, his" chief work being "The Socialist and the City."