IMPERIAL SCHOOL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 4 January 1924, Page 5

IMPERIAL SCHOOL.

OF FOREIGN POLITICS

PRINCE OF WALES NOW VISITOR

To his numerous duties and interests the. Prince of Wales has added yet another—that of Visitor to the British Institute of International Affairs, which may be regarded as a sequel to the Peace Conference in Paris (says a London correspondent). The institute is now three years of a«;e, and most of the distinguished men of the day are its members, including, too, men eminent in the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office. Distinguished authorities on foreign politics read papers limited to three-quarters of an hour, and then there is a general discussion. Propaganda of any kind is barred., the institute desiring discussion rather than goliey- In addition, the institute pubshes brochures on foreign affairs, and has issued a standard history of the Peace Conference in six volumes. The trustees are Lord Curzon, the I>uke of .Devonshire, Viscount Grey, and one of the donors. Up till reentry the institute has been very unpretentiously housed, but now, owing ±o the generosity of Colonel and Mrs Leonard, of Canada, it is to have a stiore suitable headquarters centrally situated in St. James's Square*. The house seleeied is the one where at diiFerent times three Prime Ministers have lived— William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), the Earl of I>erby, and Mr Gladstone. Not onfy have the benefactors bought the house to be' known as Chatham House, but they have given £8000 to form the nucleus of an endowment fund. At the ceremony of induction, an eloquent tribute was paid i*j the Prince by Lord Curzon. who said. -'J confess I am perfectly astonished at nis versatility. One day he is a soldier, another day a sportsman, a third day, at considerable distance, he is a successful farmer; then he constantly appears as a statesman and diplomatist. A man s<? various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.