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Resignation. So Andrew Bonar Law did not go on a very long sea voyage. Instead, he crossed the Channel and stayed in Paris, where his health became worse?so bad, indeed, that his doctor insisted upon his returning to England. Now, after a protracted period of procrastination, he has resigned the Premiership, being physically unable to continue in that responsible position...
...Bonar Law found it impossible to present his resignation personally. Instead, he sent his son-in-law, Sir Frederick Sykes, to the Royal Pavilion at Aldershot, where the King was reviewing his troops, with a letter explaining the circumstances which forced him to resign at such a time. The King accepted his resignation...
...Bonar Law, like President Harding, was elected to office because he is a conservative and therefore could be trusted to administer the country in a quiet, calm and dignified manner, without rushing into new and dangerous legislation. Bonar Law's term of office is conspicuous for its lack of enterprise. Nothing important, excepting the Baldwin Budget, was accomplished. He was content to keep Britain out of the Ruhr, to let trade take its own course, to keep out of foreign politics as much as possible. He cannot claim any credit for the agreement with Washington on the British debt; that...
Successor. When Bonar Law resigned, the King, owing to the Whitsuntide recess, had to find someone to fill the vacancy on his own responsibility...
King George has thrust a pin into the bubble which for two long days after Mr. Bonar Law's resignation supported Lord Curzon under the rays of the spotlight as the probable successor to the English premiership. The bubble was large, but it was nothing more and in the clear sunlight of modern conditions it could not last...