NOTABLE EDITOR.

Wairarapa Age, 3 July 1929, Page 2

NOTABLE EDITOR.

MR. C. P. SCOTT RESIGNS. LONG SERVICE. LONDON, JULY 1. Mr. C. P. Scott has resigned the editorship of the 4 4 Manchester Guardian/’ and will be 'succeeded by his son, Mr. E. T. Scott.—(Australian Press Association—United Service.) (In the history of the world’s Press, says an English writer, there is no such remarkable record as that of Mr. C. P. Scott, who in his eighty-third year, retires, after fifty-seven years as editor of “The Manchester Guardian.” Mr. Scott was appointeo editor at the age of twenty-five, and to the end he controlled his great paper with the same far-seeing energy, belief in the future and in the triumph of humane causes, as he 'showed when he first took up lhe. reins. A publicist, ho kept rigorously away from personal publicity, and statesmen from .other countries were continually surprised that one whose influence was so well known throughout the world was personally unknown to so many of his countrymen. But he was behind the scenes in English politics for two generations, end hi® great influence therein was only known to a privileged fow. Mr. Wells, in one of his /Clrasold books, ; writes of 4 ‘The Manchester Guardian” as one of the twf> great newspapers in the world, and speaks otf

“Scott of the ‘Guardian’ ” as “a star in isolation.” There is now, indeed, as may be said, a Scott legend, partly fostered by his seeuhsion from the gossip and glare of London society. A great thinker, a great fighter for his beliefs, he is, above all, a very great gentleman—in the finest sense of that much-abused word.)