CURZON MISSES LIFE AMBITION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1928, Page 3

CURZON MISSES LIFE AMBITION

KING’S SECRETARY DELIVERS THE BLOW REASON FOR BALDWIN’S CHOICE. Aust. Press Assn. —United Serv.cc. Received Saturday, *2 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 21. The final volume of Earl Ronaldshay’s biography of the Marquess was suffering from injuries sustained in first time the bitterness of Lord Curzon'a disappointment because his life’s ambition, to become Prime Minister, was not realised. When Mr. Bonar Law retired in 1923, many regarded it as a foregone conclusion that Lord Curzon would succeed him and when the latter was invited to see Lord Stamfordham'at Buckingham Palace, lie thought the greatest moment of his lifetime had arrived. Lord Curzon himself refers to his pleasurable anticipation in going to Buckingham Palace. “I found the almost unairaous opinion of the newspapers was that the choice lay between Mr Baldwin and myself. There was no question of the immense superiority of my claims but it was Lord Stamfordham’s unpleasant duty to convey tbo decision of his Majesty that since. Labour was the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, it was not represented in the House of Lords and so objections to a Prime Minister,being in the Upper Chamber were insurperablc.” Lord Curzon was buried with the disappointment of having missed his life’s ambition. He accepted the invitation to. continue at the Foreign Office week later ho. proposed Mr. Baldwin as leader of the Conservatives.