PRESS COMMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 307, 31 December 1907, Page 4

PRESS COMMENTS.

" AN AMAZING LETTER."

THE CLOSED DOOR

LONDON, Dec. 30

The Daily News says that the letter is an amazing one. If Lord Curzon has not asked for an English Peerage he has no grievance; if he asked for one he would have done well to keep his grievance to himself.

The Times considers Lord Curzon's claims to a seat in the House -of Lord* too clear to need argument. When he accepted the Viceroyalty his ambition was to, return .to the .House of Com-, mons. In, view qf that'intention, an Irish Peerage was conferred, instead of, as originally intended, a Peerage of the United Kingdom, It would have' been a graceful and becoming act "* on the part of Sir Henry CampbellBannerman to have acceded to the natural and reasonable representations . advanced in favour of allowing Lord Curzon to sit in the House of Lords. It trusts that the Irish Peers' will re-, stor6 to public life a man of eminence i whom Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman shuts out.