NOTABLE JOURNALIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 135, 29 August 1927, Page 8

NOTABLE JOURNALIST

MR. J. ST. LOE STRACHEY DEAD By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Saturday. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. John St. Loe Strachey, formerly editor of the “Spectator,” aged 67.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. The late Mr. John St. Lee Strachey was the second son of Sir Edward Strachey. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and called to the bar. He edited the “Cornhill Magazine,” and became editor and proprietor of ‘‘The Spectator.” He was an advocate of free trade, and was interested in rural housing reform. During the war he did much recruiting. His political opponents described him as “the self-satisfied prophet of the comfortably oft” and as “the arch-enemy of social reforms.” They complained that, if he failed to prove their views wrong, he fell back on the charge that they belonged to an “organised hypocrisy.” For years before the war he was a strong anti-German. In 192.1 Mr. Strachey published his first novel, “The Madonna of the Barricades.” Next year appeared ‘American Soundings.” Among his other works are “The Manufacture of Paupers” (1907), “The Adventure of Living,” “Economics of the Hour” (1923), “The Referendum” (1923), “The River of Life,” “The Practical Wisdom of the Bible” and “The Problems and Perils of Socialism.” By an irony of fate Mr. Strachey’s daughter is a Socialist. -