LORD CURZON’S HOPES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 September 1928, Page 9

LORD CURZON’S HOPES.

LIFE’S AMBITION MISSED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright:) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 21. A fine -volume of the Earl of Ronaldsay’s biography of Lord Gurzon reveals for the first time the bitterness ox Lord Curzon’s disappointment because his -life’s .greatest ambition to become Prime Minister was not iealised. When Mr. Bonar Law retired in 1923 many people regarded it as a foregone conclusion that Lord Curzon would succeed him, and when the latter wa® invited to see Lord Stamfoidham at Buckingnam Palace he thought the greatest moment of his lifetime had arrived. Lord - Curzon himself refers as follows to the pleasurable anticipation m <roiri" to Buckingham Palace: f found that it was almost the unanimous opinion of the newspapers That the choice lay between Mr. Baldwin and myself. There was no question of tlie irnmenae - superiority of my claims, but it was Lord Stamfordham s _ unpleasant duty to convey the decision of -his Majesty that since Labour, the official Opposition in the- House of Commons, was not represented in tlie House of Lords, objections to a -1 rime Minister in > the -Upper 'Chamber were 111 Xorß Curzon ' was buried with the disappointment of having -missed Ins life’s ambition. He accepted the invitation to continue the horeign Office and a week later lie proposed Mr. Baldwin as leader of the Conservatives.