A GREAT EDITOR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 2, 2 July 1929, Page 9

A GREAT EDITOR

" SCOTT OF THE 'GUARDIAN' "

RETIREMENT AFTER LONG

SERVICE

Australian Press Association—United Service.

LONDON, Ist July. Mr. C. P. Scott has resigned the editorship of the "Manchester Guardian," and will be succeeded by fcis son, Mr. E. T. Scott.

In the history of tho world's Press, says an English writer, there is no such remarkable record as that of Mr. C. P. Scott, who iv his eighty-third year, retires, after fifty-seven years as editor of "The Manchester Guardian." Mr. Scott was appointed editor at the age of twenty-five, and to the end ho controlled his great paper with the same

far-seeing energy, belief in the future and in the triumph of humane causes, as he showed when ho first took up the reins. A publicist, he kept rigorously away from personal publicity, and statesmen from other countries wore continually surprised that one whose influence was so well known throughout the world was personally unknown to so many of his countrymen. But he was behind the scenes in English politics for two generations, and his gieat influence therein was ouly known to a privileged few. Mr. Wells, in one of his Chssold books, writes of "The Manchester Guardian" as one of tlio two great newspapers of tho world ami speaks of "Scott of tho 'Guardian' " as a star in isolation." Thero is now, indeed, as may bo said, a Scott legend, partly fostored by his seclusion irom tho gossip and glnro of London society. A great thinker, a K n.-it fighter for his beliefs, ho is, above all a very great gentleman—in the finest senso of that much-abusod won]