To the Editor of the Nowrit-Cuma Darty New:
Sit—May I add my tribute to that of President Ly to the truly great m who has just passed away—Arthi Henderson. Some years ago it fell to my lot as the senior member on ths staff of Leeds University to spend a whole day with him, conducting him round the university laboratories and works equipment, and £ still vividly remember the impression he ma upon me. As a member or repr' sentative of the Government he obviously recognized that a task was laid upon him and his first concern was to meet his responsibilities, put~ ting all that he knew into his work—which at that time was simply to feat the Germans. But underlying this sense of responsibility tone could feel the inquiring mind fully alert to the problems which any and every possible conclusion of the War must bring In its train and a quiet determination to accept nothing short of a thorough investigation into the possibilities of those conditions which would make for 4 permanent world peace. Possibly no man really suffered more from the jaundiced outlook en industry which 19th century industrial ¢onditions had engendered than Arthur Her HIna he been brought up to regard most phases of industry as "ways of ite" instead of as impositions by which lo earn one's daily bread, he would probably have recognized the greater possibility of eliminating war indirectly by the development of dom-nating interests in the lives of all people rather than by depending upon restrictive influences: but his own training in Industrial life had probably been too hard for this. And so it came about that he led the way towards peace along those lines which seemed to him most promising. And well and truly did he fight for his ideals and we may well hope that before he died he had the privilege of realizing that at least some of his endeavours would come to fruition that never again would war be tered upon without the superior! of the truer victories of peace being fully emphasized. That progress towards a truly fundamental peace was slow he must again and again have felt, but as I remember him he could regard the gloomiest world-outlook in an optimistic sort tended to remove doubt velop hopefulness in the minds of many who without this sustaining me fluence would have regarded the world-conditions as being beyond con~ trol. He set and lived up to a great ideal and all honour to him for this.
Avonto F, Banken, Shanghai, Nov. 24,
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