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friicies, few fournaliste risk the crore sttendent onthe gort ope. Be'tontesea thatthe orator has att emerald. "Yet It must advantage over the when he happens to be a. personage Ur distinction, his thoughts even after {he lapse of' time seem to carry permanency of appeal which makes "f their transfer to the formal record of 12 book: productive of entertainment Jand inspiration.. Mr. Stanley Baldwin—the must here peso styled—is a speaker who manages to achieve the effects of the great. orator by the very: [negligence of his form both in delivvery-and language. He rises from, that front bench with the half-de~ predating, half-pugnacious air of the plain man unable to be eloquent in the statement of facts." He gives the Impression at the start that: he can~ rot see why he. should be looked jupon as an oracle. Tu one of these Jspecches, incidentally, he declares that, pledges of "blind. loyalty" to himself always make him feel foolish. [On that point he ts the respectable support of Confucius... Yet, warms to-his theme,, although he Jnever' abandons' the dateless man~ nerisms of the public school accent, hho. gradually allows his depth [sentiment to find. expression and he attains to heights of real. eloquence with the perfection of the' art which conceals art. AN that of course is irrelevant to the study of speeches. ound set down in cold print, except in s0 far as it confirms the patent honesty fof Mr. Baldwin's thought, Characteristic of his convinced belief in the Jqualities of his countrymen, the trl-Whas butes paid by him to the memories Bari coe, King George V, Earl Beatty, the Canadian Dead, Sir' Aus-iten Chamberlain and Lord' Grey of Fallodon find a special place in this dedication to service. His historic speech on the Abdication of King }Zdward VII Atty is included and on re-reading it seems incredible, that, the face of the basic unity of the nation on that issue, there still can bbe maggot minds which profess to see in that affair some Machiavellian intrigue devised by a Prime Minister Jot, Conservative instincts with the active connivance of the Bishops and Trade Unions. The final speech is that to the Empire Rally of Youth; appropriately was his last public utterance as Prime Minister for he handed on the torch in this. form:
Vee men ap ends and never, mere ly may [17 those sentences is enshrined the' essence of Mr. Baldwin's statesmanship. As Earl Baldwin sits in the House of Lords to continue giving th his counsel with greater authority. and less responsibility, he will have ho reason to fear posterity's verdict fon that doctrine or the Prime /Minister who was courageous enough to'act upon it—tat,
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