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...Lord Curzon, Foreign Minister, the favorite candidate in the Conservative party; although it was realized that his appointment would not be popular with labor or with foreign countries...
...revue was produced in Rome called the Mussolini Ide. It symbolizes Italy before and after the triumphant march of the Fascisti on Rome last Fall. The chief characters are Mussolini, Giolitti, Nitti, Don Sturzo, Lenin, Poincare and, of course, Lord Curzon...
Says Lord Curzon to Mussolini: " And what remedy did you use to cure the disease of Bolshevism...
...Lord Curzon, British Foreign Minister, came in for a good part of the hate: " Curzon demands that we shall not support the movement for liberty in India and Egypt, but such propaganda-by-action as the shooting of Vorovsky has done more for the East than it would be possible for the Third Internationale to do." Curzon was also cited as the chief " inspirator of the Entente effort at Lausanne to prevent a Russo-Turkish rapprochement...
...Lord Curzon is prevented by birth from ever becoming a member of the House of Commons. His classmates at the University had, it is said, a standing toast--"Here's to George Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor...