New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1923, Page 18

DEATHOFLAW 1§ SHOCK T0 ENGLAND (Costinped from First Page) was precarious Outside that elos eirele 1t was known only that he had sontracted & throat complaint which ted him from speaking My, Bonar Law was aware of his ewn condition and promised 11 unionist party, when he accepied its mandate, that he would resign when he found his strength s 1o his work, He gave place to Btas Yaldwin, his ehancellor of (he chequer, almost belore Wi ernment was fairly organ 1o the country to safeguard his strength Probably Had Cancer Neo official statement as to the na ture of Mr, Bopar Law's iliness was ever made, but the publie drew an i ference from the fact that Dr, Them a8 Horder, who was attending him when he resigned and who has since been his physician, s one of the fore most cancer specialists Puring the futerval spent ecountry since his retirement from the prime ministership, Mr, Bonar Law had been able to take outdoor walk talling and also motored considerably, The ¥ these activities, which wan hold 1eports of seemed to indieate that he ing his own, had not prepared publie for the news of his compara tively rapid decline. There has not yol hesn time for funeral arrangements, but ther s every reason to belleve it was Mr Ronur Law's wish to be burled as simply as he lived, Was Powerful Figure Andrew Bonar Law, one of (he most powerful figures in politicul urope preceding, during and imme diately following the world war, be came prime minister of England Oc tober 23, 1922, upon the resignation of David Dioyd George—Ilast of the famous war premiers and of the “Big Four” ut Versailles to step down from ©ilice. Refused King's Offer Bonar Law had distinguished him- self five years before as the man who refused a king's offer to make him prime minister. As leader of the con- servatives, the largest single party in the house of commons, he was sum- moned by King George to form cablnet late In 1916, after Liloyd George, then minister of munitions, | had forced an issue with Premier As quith and brought about the latter's | The political colleagues | of Asquith, however, declined to prom- | a | coalition government was essential for | the successful prosecution of the war, resignation. iso. adhesion, and believing that Bonar Law refused the honor. Lloyd George and his famous war cabinet was the result. Roosevelt or ¥ngrand Often calldd the “Roosevelt of Eng land"” because of his tremendous fol lowing from all parties and all walks of life, Bonar Law became chancellor of the exchequer under the new pre- mier and fought side by side with tne “Little Welsh Giant” until the spring the 8o a Although always & champion of the man he had virtuslly made premier | Bonar 14w romatned with his party when (he conservati ™ and decided 1o withheld suppont from the roalition gevernment, which it was felt, had eutiived the emer lgeney for which it was created, e spite his fadling health was oo wdered the logieal suceessor 1o Lioyd and when the King aga® in ) found o8 4 Grorge vited him 1o form & ministy ne words behind which to couch a v fusal L of his stremuous managed 1o eonduct the affalys office for seven heeame publiely again had May, 1928, it premier was throat affes nt was im his formal was Med with the king resignation Naldwing ehancellor of v was named to sueeced Had g Task nirast 1o the epochal period armistice and the era of reconstruction subsequent to the ending of hostilities, the govern ment of lomar Law was eclipsed in although it dealt ral problems of great and international magnitude, Among these Irish question, the 1 Invasion of the Ruhr valley, h placed England in an extreme ar, the importance, was the Vrey alo position; the fundink of ti.e | an debt, and the difficultios With soviet Ftusia over the tetutment of British subjects In the Near. East A stulesman with few political one emies, the earser of Bonar Law was singnlar, He was 42 years of age he fore he entered polities. A success- ful Glasgow firon merchant who had heen born mnd educated in Canada, Iis rise to eminence in the Britjsh parliament began with his election in 1900 a8 a Unionist from the Black- [friars Division of Glasgow. Strong for tariff reform, he soon became noted for his clear reasoning on that subject, and as a result was made Parliamentary sccretary of the board of trude, Later he successively hecaine leader of the Unionist, or op- 1pn.mon party in the house of com- | mons, secretary of state for the . TOO TIRED » TO WORK? If you get up in the morning tireds if you weary with:little exertion and if 'vim and "go are lacking, glepend upon it that your liver is to ;d‘ One dose of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills will “‘wake up’’ that lazy liver apd make you feel like new. 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Eyesight Specialist Rooms 504-505 Hudson Bldg. 57 Pratt St., Hartford 822, met | | Colonies, changetior of the excheguer, |about the svacumtion of Gallipell, of lord of the privy seml, and fnally [Histarred Dardanelies campalan fame [ and the 00 surviving British soldiers from an untenable position His services as gosernment in the house of commens, 4 more dif- fioult and thankiess peo 0 than that Was Business Man Primarily a business man ployed 1 pess rather | than th s 0 «deal ¢ With the ame the Welshman's J¢ N was referred to as his “Man Fri tay As & member of the eubi el, a8 chancellor, and as the ceali tion government's leader in the house of commons, he enjoyed the fullest | confidence of his famous chief He g interpreted administration ' o8, parvied thrusts against the . ment and answered interpelia tions from the floor, A lithe, shim figure of a , scarcely five feet in height, with bristling mustache geht, activereyes, and & determined st to his mouth and ehin, he was & typieal hard-headed Beoteh business | reading the retiving chancellor's let man. In addition, he was something | ter of resignation, repeatedly ehoked of an orator, quiek of thought and | back sobs and expressed the hope that speech, using short, sharp sentences | his friend might return to his duties that eoften smacked of that bitter, |after a prolonged rest, Finally cutting sarcasm for which was [ premier, who had been so cour famous. |ous and powerful in the eonduct ¢ he em lender ' s Hiustel e ous predecessors, Disvaell, (Hadstone, { e Campbell-Bannerman and A, J. Bal four His Hetivement a Shock Neps Af his retirement due to il health in the spring ef 1921, came a5 u shoek to his colleagues and hy former hitter opponents. Former Premier Asquith said “I have for many years heen engaged in giving and laking blows from Mr. Bonar Law bul they never left any rancor behind them"” Tloyd George, In with | domestie | | | Special Wednesday 360 TRIMMED HATS MATRONS’ HATS—MISSES’ HATS DUVETYN HATS—GOLD and SILVER HATS VELOUR HATS—FELT HATS 2 Special Prices $2.88 and $5.00 These Are the Greatest Values in Town Your | ! Money Could Buy SEE WINDOWS FOR THESE VALUES Goldenblum Millinery. Co. 188 MAIN Y. M. C. A. Bldg. NEW BRITAIN ‘Storage Battery Station 96 CHESTNUT STREET OPEN DAILY TO 8 P. M. Storage Batteries For All Purposes $6.50 and up Vehicle Automobiles Radio remersl of mare than 188, on, placed | tributes to his work were pald even |8, fa gedture indicating his inabitity 1o |eign secretary, Winsten Churehill | continue then seoretary for war, and Austin Bonar 1aw's breakdown dated | Chamberiain, chancellor of the ex from shortly before the Paris peace | Shequ The diffieulty of the sitva conference of 1918 which he attend- (Hien was made gveater by the atll. | od as one of the British delegates [tude of France and Ameriea, where The disposition of Benar 1aw v..,’;:"‘"‘"'.' mueh * opposition fe the take the most positive stand on grave | Pritish plan, caused him Bora in Canada his frst Honar Law was born 1o New Brups- | neompromi kK, Canada, September 16 1568, Bliean move of the Rev. James Law, M. A Mayor Mae Brunswiek. In early youth a hunger | he was taken 1o Glasgow where he | in Hriston Yrisen, James attended high sehool and finally be Thomas, presl t of the | eame bookkeeper for an lvon frm. | Union congress, representing | Later he was made.a member of the 000 Writish workers, blamed [concern and when he retived from | Bonar Law as “the one man more | busines to enter polities was one of (han any other whe has justified in |the higgest iron merchants of Heot- | Ulster and in parliament the spirlt of [land, Golf and chess were his fav- L rebellion.” 1In a speech in Edinburgh | orite recreations [the chancellor prophesied that the | Nine years before his election to government wonld fail uniess it was | Parliament he married Miss Annie “firm” in dealing with Binn Fein Piteairn Tobley of Glasgow whe died The desire of Lloyd George in 1909, Four ehildren were born to | Bonar Law to resume trade them, two sons and two daughters |tions with Russia through the oy One daughter, Isabelle, hecame the ent alse met with determiy | bride of Fir General Frederiek Hykes o s from Parl Curgon, the f in Lendon in 1920, Two sons, An-| tary, with determined re- | thony and Lieutenant ©, I, Bonar M Earl Curzon, the for- [Law were lost in the war wlds. 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