One name in the Honours List makes a particular appeal to Scotland. Sir George Younger is created a Viscount. Bince his entry into public life he has been a Scottish Nationalist first and all the time. Circumstances have kept from him the Scottish Secretaryship, which is the highest position whish a Scotsman may covet apart from the Premiership, already held by a compatriot. But Sir George could have been the Secretary for Scotland years ago had he cared to take the office. The circumstances in which he refused the honour re-donnd to this credit. Now he goes to the House of Lords with a rank which is usually bestowed on men who have held Cabinet rank. No doubt the honour is immediately due' to the services which he rendered as Chairman of.the Unionist Party in the recent election, but primarily he gets the coronet because of the years of service he rendered at Westminister as a Scot to Scotland.
Though a doughty party man, Sir George won and retained the friendship of his political opponents throughout his long House of Commons career. He sat for Ayr Burghs from 1906 until the General Election laet year, and as Chairman of the Unionist Party organization since 1917 he played a notable and sagacious purt in reconsolidating the Conservative Party and bringing it to power. In conjunction with Sir Malcolm Fraser, the principal agent of the Unionist Party, who becomes a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire, ho piloted the fortunes of the party with shrewd judgment and sustained courage through that delicate period of political transition which began with the weakening of the Coalition and culminated in its dramatic overthrow last year at th:
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