Lord William Cecil, as the brother: of the Marquis of Salisbury, was the. single dissentient among the Bishops present during the second reading of the India Bill. Thus the solidarity of the present generation of Cecile—leaving Viscount Cecil of Chelwood out of account—is vindicated for the other brother, Lord Hugh Cecil, has followed the Marquis in determinedly opposing the Bill." The Bishop Exeter appears to have based" his opposition an a general objection to, democratic forms of government. Probably there are no abler exponents of this view than he and his gifted brothers. The Elizabethan traditions of the House of Cecil are strikingly fMlustrated in the influence which the neo-Georgian members of that House sill exercise on British politics. Bven hig most inveterate opponent will not fail to accord to the Marquis of, Salisbury remarkable powers of ex-Pounding the merits of the aristo—eratic: system of Government, The sincerity and lofty patriotism of these noblemen disarm ridicule, especially as their expan for public service unquestioned. Moreover, when assalling democracy, they can develop formidable arguments the truth of which If is by no means easy to, traverse. How Viscount Cecil manages to reconcile himself to the general trend of the family's polities st is not possible to surmise, His present absorption in the League of Nations probably preserves -him snd them from a definite decision on the
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