LATE LORD CURZON

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 40, 25 September 1928, Page 6

LATE LORD CURZON

BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT. WANTED TO BE PREMIER. HIS SUPERIOR CLAIMS. LONDON", Sept. 21. A fine volume of Earl of Ronaldshay's biography of Lord Curzon reveals for the first time the bitterness. of Lord Curzon! s disappointment, because, his 'lite'a greatest, ambition to become Prime Minisier was Hot, realised. When Mr Bonar Law retired, in 1923, many people regarded it a. s a foregone conclusion that Lird Curzon would sueceed-Mm and when tile latter was invited* to see Lord Stamfordbam at Buckingham Palace hb thought the greatest, moment of his> l" lifetime had' arrived. Lord Ourzon himself refers t.o the pleasurable anticipation in going to Buckingham Palace: "I found that it was almjost .the unanimous opinion of ' the newspapers that the choice lay betweeftv Mr Baldwin and myself, i'here was no question of the immense superiority of my claims, but it was Lord S!fcamfordham'is. unpleasant duty* ■■'■ to convey the decision of His Majesty ' that since Labour, the official Oppo- . sition in the House! qi: Commons, was not represented' ill the "Bouse of Lords objection® to a Prime Minister in the Upper' Chamber were insuperable." ! ' ' '•._._'. .'..' Lord 1 durzoh "was "purled. with the disappointment of having missed hib life's, ambition. He accepted the i n_ vitation to- continue the Foreign Office and a week latex he proposed MiBaldwin'as leader of the Conservatk yes.,'