LORD HALDANE PASSES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1928, Page 5

LORD HALDANE PASSES.

STATESMAN AND PHILOSOPHER RESPONSIBLE FOR RE-MODEL-LING OF BRITISH ARMY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. and Sun.) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 19. The death has*oeeurred of .Viscount Haldane of Cloan, 0.M., K.T., aged 72 years.

A somewhat romantic career has closed with the death of Lord Haldane. He will be best remembered in years to come as the founder of the Territorial Force in Britain and incidentally as the initiator of various methods which increased the efficiency of the War Office. The fact that he practically created the British Expeditionary Force that went to France in 1914 is not so prominent in the public mind, because his record of public service was subsequently belittled by political propaganda. Haldane was a lawyer by profession and a philosopher by inclination. The fourth, son of the late Robert Haldane, of Cloanden, he was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Edinburgh and Gottingen Universities. He took- the M.A. degree with first class honours in philosophy at Edinburgh. He was called to the English bar iu 1879, From 1902 to 1904 he was Gifford Lecturer in St. Andrew's Univearsity. His political career commenced in 1885, when he was elected M.P. (Liberal) for Haddingtonshire, which seat he retained until 1911. In 1902 he was appointed to the Privy Council; from 1905 to 1912 he was Secretary of State for War; and from 1912 to 1915 Lord Chancellor. Always a friend and admirer of philosophic Germany, he made two visits to Berlin (in 191)6 and 1912) for the purpose of negotiating a rapprochement, which, however, came to nothing. He resigned in the Cabinet crisis of May, 1916, but continued to act as a member of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, and in various ways assisted in the prosecution of the War. Lord Haldane was an enthusiast for education, on which subject he made numerous speeches. Besides writing books on philosophical, educational and economic subjects, he was the translator (with Kemp) of Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Idea," in three volumes. In recent times he expressed admiration for the ideals of the Labour Party, and he was Chancellor in Mr Ramsay MacDonald's Ministry. He was Rector of Edinburgh University from 1905 to 1908. Lord Haldane comes of a long-lived family, but he leaves no heir. He was a friend both of King Edward the Seventh and of the Kaiser, and it has been said that he always turned to Germany for inspiration and to the German Army for ideas. It was from Germany that he brought, the idea of a General Staff with which he began his reform of the British Army.

EULOGY BY LORD GEORGE.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Australian Press Assn—United Service (Received This Dav, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August IS).

Mr Lloyd George referring to Lord llaldane, said, "1 always, thought he was most harshly treated in war time and accorded the basest ingratitude. No British statesman more greatly ensured the allied success. lie organised the Territorials, who saved us during the dark winter of li>ls, when we had no other troops. He organised the general staff and expeditionary force and initiated the officers' cadet corps, yet he was treated as if he were a traitor to his native land and it hurt him deeply."