VICEROY OF INDIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 12

VICEROY OF INDIA.

TYPICAL ENGLISHMAN. At the ago of 44 —ho will bo the youngest Viceroy since Lord Curzon, who was 40 when he wont out to rule India—Mr Edward Wood has succeeded to the highest position in the British Empiro at the disposal of the Prime Minister. “If I were asked to describe Mr Wood, I should say that ho was tho most typical of what I regard as the finest type of man —namely, the honest Englishman,” says “T.P.” in the Sunday Times. “Of great family distinction —grandson of a man who was onco Secretary for India and a prominent politician; son of a peer; owner of large estates —in a way he seems to walk out of the eighteenth century, or, to be perhaps a little more accurate, out of the early Victorian days, when tho squires especially on tho Liberal side—were still the chief personalities in the government of the country. Though now he is nominally a Conservative, he would bo more accurately described as a Whig of the same school as. Palmerston, Graham and Lord John Russell, or, if wo could go back further, of Charles James Fox, who united the traditions of great birth and a keen regard for popular liberties. If you met Mr Wood at the Arctic Pole, or in the Antarctic, you would know from first Took at him that he was an Englishman ; his race and his traditions are written in letters too legible in his face, his figure and his speech to bo mistaken for anything else.” <