The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections . roken, and a police-man stood on guard. A few of us wished he took hisill-treatment with a fiercer spirit; but looking backnow I think that even the youngest of us perceivesthat he was unconsciously teaching us by his behaviourone of the noblest lessons to be learned in the school oflife. Let his fate teach democracy that when it has founda leader whom it can trust, it must be prepared to fightfor him as well as to follow him. No statesman is safe LORD HALDANE 121 from the calumny of newspapers, and no statesmanviolently and persisten
The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections . roken, and a police-man stood on guard. A few of us wished he took hisill-treatment with a fiercer spirit; but looking backnow I think that even the youngest of us perceivesthat he was unconsciously teaching us by his behaviourone of the noblest lessons to be learned in the school oflife. Let his fate teach democracy that when it has founda leader whom it can trust, it must be prepared to fightfor him as well as to follow him. No statesman is safe LORD HALDANE 121 from the calumny of newspapers, and no statesmanviolently and persistently attacked in a crisis candepend upon the loyalty of his colleagues. It is notin our politics as it is in our games. LORD RHONDDA LORD RHONDDA OF LLANWERN(DAVID ALFRED THOMAS MACKWORTH) First Baron, 1916. Born, in Aberdare, Wales, 1856; died, with tutors, and later at Caius College, Cambridge; Scholaralso, of Jesus; President South Wales Liberal Federation, 1893-97; for Merthyr, 1888-1910; for Cardiff, 1910; Food Controller, u. & u. LORD RHONDDA CHAPTER XILORD RHONDDA Whereof what better witness can ye expect I should produce than one ofyour own now sitting in Parliament.—Milton. In the Merry Passages and Jests of old Sir NicholasLestrange record is made of the following wittydefinition: Edm. Gurney used to say that a mathe-matitian is like one that goes to markett to buy anaxe to break an egg. This perhaps had been the fate of Lord Rhondda,for he was by nature of a true mathematical turn, hadnot the circumstances of his economic life forced him toapply this natural tendency to the practical affairs ofcommerce. But nature herself had given him with thisaptitude for mathematics another quality which musteventually, one would suppose, have saved him fromthe unfruitful fate of a theorist—he was a man of rareimagination. And so this mathematician, who wasalso a poet, brought a unique mind to the affairs of com-merce and there scored a success whi
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