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Fon (Continued From First Page.) lieving implicity in the divine rights of grand dukes and shahs. ke Two years, and off he went again, this time to Paris. A nice city for a young diplomat. Official soclety a trifie stiff, but the cream of the gay Russians, the English haut monde well represent- ed and plenty of those amusing and superbly rich Franco-Americans and Anglo-Americans who found their spir- itual home in the French capital. Hrlps Shape New Policy. Before he had time to tire of Paris they recalled him to London, having use for a man of his experience and acquaintance now that British policy was developing along new lines under the pressure of the entente cordiale, a sentimental term which since the war has lost its meaning both in London and Paris, but which at that time might be translated as “you and I against the boche™ . . . He stayed three years in Whitehall completing his diplomatic education, meeting every one from permanent -of- ficials to secretaries of state, grasping how things are done at the headquarters of the foreign policy organization; and then they thought him the best pick in sieht for the post at The Hague, which ‘was rendered more important than it is today because it was then a sort of minor Geneva, the center of interna- tional action—and intrigue. In the year before the war they wanted a man to superintend the fi- nances of Egypt, then very tightly held under the British imperia] hand. This financier had to be au fait with diplo- macy and a trusted servant of the for- eign office, which before the 1922 Dec- laration of Egyptian Independence ran the kingdom of the Pharaohs much as & country squire runs an outlying but valuable part of his estate. He of neces- sity also had to be experienced in Orien- tal ways and psychology and acquainted with Near East problems and the rami- fications of Russian and Turkish policy. Lindsay was the very man. Out he went with the official title of under- secretary of state for finance to the Egyptian government. He was married now—to a charming American, Martha, daughter of the Pennsylvania Senator, Donald Cameron. Cairo was quite gay in the season. Lots of Americans and Britishers of Lindsay’s world there. War Brings Racial Changes. But next year this social scene was shot to pieces. The war broke, Kitch- ener sat in the London war office, the Turks besicged Egypt and the under- secretary of state for finance was forgotten in the dust and blood and clamor. Throughout the war he stayed where he was in Cairo. Some one re- membered him long enough in the sec- ond war year to make him a. grand officer of the Order of the Nile (which would have been a fat lot of use if the Turks had overrun Egypt or the central powers had broken the allies’ back and seized the British colonies). In this pause it is not uninstructive to glance aside for a moment at Ronald Lindsay’s brother, the Earl of Craw- ford and Balcarres, Baron Lindsay of Crawford (that goes back before 1143), Baron Lindsay of Balcarres (1633), Earl of Balcarres, Lord Lindsay and Balniel (1651, that trio) and Baron Wigan (quite a recent title, created 1826), art patron and connoisseur, trustee of na- tional galleries and museums, boxer, teetotaler, archeologist, professional architect, philatelist, politician—it is not uninstructive to take a glance at him, because here you get the Lindsay clan characteristics in full flower, un- curbed in their development and mani- festation by the self-discipline of long years of diplomatic training. If Ron- ald looks like a baron, this Lindsay, David, looks like a viking, even to the touch of wildness about the massed hair and the fighting gleam in the| Nordic eye. Voluntarily Accepts Duty Call. ‘The war arrived as he sat in the Elizabethan library of his northern castle, pleasantly segregated from the din and racket of the struggle to live by a few thousand acres of parkland (this family derives much wealth from marriages to hel dded to min- eral wealth under, and the growth of an industrial city over a large expanse of their lands). He was 45, fit, but untrained to arms. He arose and went forth. The military authorities of Aldershot were astonished when he presented himself as a volunteer for enlistment in the army medical service as a pri- vate for the duration of the war. How- ever, he was human material.© They took him. Next morning he was out drilling with the rest of the recruits. In a few weeks he was in Prance. Six months later a man he had em- ployed as a political agent, but who, having had some territorial training be- fore the war, had been commissioned and sent out with a regiment of Kitch-~ Ielnel"s army, ran across him behind the nes, Bans Use of Royal Title. ‘The twenty-seventh earl and tegth | baron was taking tea to a member of | his company who was under arrest in| the town hall for some minor de-| ‘meanor. “My lord,” began the agent, auto- | matically standing to attention before | this tall, commanding, mustached and maned private. He got no farther. “Eh, what?” rapped the private, testily snapping to attention, tea in one hand, the other at salute. “Damme, sir, are you addressing me? You'll find no lords here, sir. My name is Crawford. Kindly don't forget that.” It took Crawford a long time to his corporal’s stripe. He found it easier | to become a member of the government | subsequently, and a cabinet minister | after the war. The end of the war and the peace | conference brought Ronald Lindsay, | whose wife died in the last war year, relief from his Cairo post. He was sent | to Washington as first secretary. His | promotion thereafter was rapid. The | Marquess Curzon—an eighteenth cen- tury great noble born out of his time, | 2 man so imbued with the pride of birtn that although he served under botn | Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin dui- ing their premierships, he never invited either of these commoners to a private social function in his house—the Mai- quess Curzon of Kedleston was secre- | tary of state for foreign affairs, whie | the head of the Lindsay clan was now in the government and active in the House of Lords. Ronald Lindsay was not likely to be forgotten by this regime. Gain Early Promotion. | He was promoted to counselor at the Washington embassy within a few months, and in the Summer of 1919 as charge d'affaires. 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The embassy was bestowed upon & marquess of 66, a former leader or the House of Lords and cabinet minister, with a beautiful, charming and witty wife and a literary bent which, it was felt, would help him to get on witn Prench statesmen, most of whom are men of the pen. Assigned to New Post in London. Curzon called Lindsay back to London and found him a post as additional undersecretary in the foreign office for three years. They were critical years in the foreign field. The Lloyd George- Curzon policy nearly got Britain in- volved in an unwanted war with a new ‘Turkey risen from the ashes of the ola Ottoman Empire on the wings of Kema: Pasha, and Curzon had to meet Kemals ministers and negotiate terms of peacw. He took Lindsay to help him, and when the time came to exchange Aml jors he sent Lindsay to hold the foreign office fort at Constantinople. The Ambassador had married again. He brought with him to the British em- bassy on the Bosphorus the second Laay Lindsay, the former Elizabeth Hoyt of New York. Constantinople was not a bad spot. Angora, of course, was the real capital, but Kemal hadn't had time to turn it from a muddle of mud huts into a capital city. Angora had no hotels, a scanty food supply, a large | number of varied smells, an overgrowtn of politicians and no society in the dip- lomatic meaning of the term. So whenever the new Ambassador had business to transact with the Turkisn powers that be, he took train for the capital and operated from his saloon car. Meantime, in Berlin the veteran financier, Lord D'Abernon, whom Lloy George had sent out as Ambassador after the war to inaugurate a practicat policy of peace and conciliation, haa, with the American Ambassador, pre- pared the ground for the solution of the reparations Yroblem by Dawes and his technical colleagues. 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On the Bosphorus resided the square peg to fit this square hole. Lindsay was moved to Berlin. But he did not stay longer than he had become accustomed to staying any- where. Before two years were up Hin- denburg was giving him a farewell ban- uet, Frau Stresemann (Gustav being ill at Buhlerhohe) a good lunch and the German government a memento plece of plate. And headed by its doyen, the Papal Nuncio, the diplomatic corps gathered on the station platform to wave him off. Back in London the permanent un- dersecretary for foreign affairs had died and Lindsay, who had now piled up a more varied career than any one else in the diplomatic service and who had had practical experience of the three chief diplomatic centers in the post-war world plus a sojourn of three years in the undersecretary’s depart- ment at the foreign office, had been re- called by Austen Chamberlain, now foreign secretary, to run the foreign office. His appointment ultimately to Wash- ington was not a forgone conclusion. There was a phase of doubt as to whether the Ambassador would be chosen from the ranks of the profes- sional diplomats at all. Lloyd George had invariably preferred the brilliant amateur to the steady professional. He had sent a financier to Berlin, a law- Yer~mlmclsn and then a professor to ‘Washington, a sporting peer to Paris. The diplomatic service was justly sore at this distribution of the plums to out- side favorites and when Lloyd George went it saw to it that the new Tory regime did not continue the practice. Labor Party Presents Problem. But there were apprehensions as to what the Labor government might do. 1In 1924 there was much intriguing and backstairs work on the part of those who wanted a popular and trusted Labor supporter, a good mixer, sent out to succeed Auckland Geddes. But Premier Macdonald had taken over the foreign absorbed the forei office view and stopped all the talk by appointing Sir Esme Howard, who had earned promotion in the service. ‘This time propaganda in favor of an outside choice was even stronger. It focused particularly upon Sir Oswald Mosley. Rich, Beautiful wife, Amer- ican on her mother’s side. Tremendous socialist. Decorative. Foreign policy - Crumniture his special subject. Close friend of Ramsay Macdonald. But there was nothing doing. The choice lay with Foreign Secretary Hen- derson and Premier Macdonald, and they picked the best man in sight in the service. That he chances to be a bm—‘ ther of the twenty-seventh earl, who was a Tory chief whip and a leader of the House of Lords, will be an item of interest in Lindsay family history, but | it means nothing to the Labor-Social- ists who want to make a roaring success of their government and don’t care whether the human material they use comes from a peasant’s cabin or an| earl’s castle, so long as it is sound tim- ber, well seasoned, straight, strong, without a flaw, adequate to the pur- vose in view. BRYAN Italian Bartenders " Bemoan Trade Slump | The American bartender may think j that he has a “tough time of it,” but his Italian brother rises to say that | he, of all bartenders on earth, is the | most benighted. The Italian species considers itself hard hit chiefly be- cause the tourist trade has slumped considerably during recent years, par- ll‘!cullrly since the rise in value of the ra. 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