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...white-haired earl sat down at his desk last week and wrote finis to one of the longest and most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed...
Bent and careworn, the Earl said with quiet fervor...
...Earl sat down and the audience rose to sing an old Scotch song: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" The first verse rose clear and lilting, but at the refrain Lord Oxford and Asquith was seen to be in tears. Soon he was weeping heavily. He managed to say brokenly: "I thank you . . . I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...Earl, of whom it has been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
Whoever wrote this book (and it must have been a woman) is capable of endowing synthetic images with all the tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington...