CURZON’S LIFE AMBITION THWARTED.
EXPECTED THE PRIME MINISTERSHIP. LONDON, Wednesday. How the late Marquis Curzon, of Kcdleston, hr 1923. hurried to London convinced that, the King would ask him to succeed Mr Bonar Law as Prime Minister, is revealed in the diary of Lord d'Abernon, a former British Ambassador to Berlin. Half an hour after liis arrival, says the diary, Lord Curzon received the King's private secretary, Lord Stamfordham, as a future Prime Minister would, but he received a. terrible shock when told that the King was 'summoning Mi- Baldwin. His- pride was mortally wounded, and he is said to have completely broken down, but his i'nvincible'Tiumour finally triumphed.
Lord d’Abernon describes Mr Baldwin, before his appointment, as sitting beside Mr Bonar Law, at the fireside, “saying little but looking like a pre-ternaturally-sagacious fawn.”
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Shannon News, 29 November 1929, Page 1
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134CURZON’S LIFE AMBITION THWARTED. Shannon News, 29 November 1929, Page 1
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