TRAINING FOR POLITICS
LORD ASTOR'S EN COUR AGEMENT Lord Astor related reeently how he iand Lady Astor h'elp to train young people for a political life. "It has been our endeavour," he said, "to encourage the young by giving them a start with street-corner speaking. "When I look down the benches of. the House of Commons, and even the House of Lords, I see there several coming legislators who went to Plymouth and learned the A B C of politics in that way. We are trying the same with our two eldest sons. "Bill — that is the Hon. William Astor — is, however, at present in Manchuria, and David has announced that he is going off to Russia on his own this summer — -good enterprise . for a boy of 20."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 328, 15 September 1932, Page 7
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