LATE GENERAL BOOTH.
HIS CHOICE OF SUCCESSOR.
NAME FOR EVER SECRET.
LONDON. Jan. 23
In explaining why tho late General Braimveil Booth's abortive nomination of his successor must ever remain secret, tho Salvation Army's solicitor states that the utmost precaution was taken to ensure secrecy. Only the solicitor and one of General Booth's sons were aware that the General intended to name a successor
Tho solicitor and his managing clerk took a document on March 14 last year, to a Turkish bath, where the General filled in the nominee's name and covered it, with blotting-paper while the witnesses signed. Tho General sealed the envelope, which litis remained in the solicitor's personal possession ever since. As it has been burned unopened, it can ho stated positively that nobody knows or will over know what name was inserted. Any suggestion that; a copy exists is entirely unfounded, bocause ono never did exist.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 11
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