SUPERMEN OF THE WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1928, Page 7

SUPERMEN OF THE WAR

WHERE ARE THEY NOW

The sudden reappearance of Sir Eric Geddes in the news and the pictures on the occasion of a family air trip to Scotland 'serves rather to emphasise the obscurity into which ho and the other “supermen” of a decade ago have since lapsed. Sir Eric and his brother, Sir Auckland, the brothers, Weir, Air Profchero , Sir Robert Horne. Lord Rhondda and Mr Fisher were the men who were to win first the war and then the peace, and upon them thi* limelight was at that time exclusively concentrated. Where are they now? Lord Rhondda is dead, but the others are all alive somewhere. Sir Eric Geddes lias lapsed into a comfortable and profitable existence in the city: company meetings and not national affairs account for his occasional emergence into the news. Sir Auckland Geddes, once regarded as the riglu man for any big job. slipped from the AVasliington Embassy into private life. The AAeirs are in the Lords, where thier Scottish accents are seldom hoard—the one as Lord Tnverforth occasionally figures in a shipping merger: the other has lapsed into silence since his absortive attempt to popularise steel houses. AD’ Fisher enjovs the cloistered calm of university life, and his opinions, although valuable, do not sway affairs Air Prothero. the ducal estate agent, who was made Minister of Agricultuio now lives and moves in comparative obscurity as Lord Ernie, and Sir Robert Horne, who is popularly believed to have been headed off the Chancellorship of the Exchequer hv AD\ Churchill, now retains only a halfhearted interest in politics, and devotes much more attention to big business. A’e.t those supermen a few rears ago bestrode public life. Ts it that they have tired of polities, or have polities tired of thorn? e