MR BALFOUR’S RETURN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3365, 18 December 1919, Page 5

MR BALFOUR’S RETURN.

“If Mr Balfour has not borne limelight part in Paris, the public in—V stinct has its own shrewd judgment of the service covered by his laborious months in that capital, and his return is rightly noted as the completion of a worthy chapter in his career.’-’ says the “Observer.” . ’ “There has been a fine impressivew. ness about the loyal self-suppression with which Mr Balfour has throughout the war shown his splendid abilities, his mature diplomatic skill, and his vast knowledge and experience into the ‘common stock.’ Possessing in their ripest form the characteristic" qualities of our political tradition, he has brought to the aid of the European resettlement the best that “the old order’ had to bestoW.’a’ “His share in the negotiations has not brought him much into the lime-« }light, but his counsel and experience have been of the greatest value not Lonlyto; his chief, but tohis colleagues of other countries,.and -socially he has been as great 3. success in Paris as She, was in Washington,” says the ;“Sunday Times.” 1 ' I