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Once in, Stanley Baldwin made Parliament his gentleman's club, developed a knack for maneuvering among the other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...Arriving at Government House Curzon himself did not appear to receive me. We entered the house and Curzon then appeared, dressed in a shooting coat and slippers...
...morning after my arrival Curzon took his public departure, with troops lining the street and a full Viceroy's escort in attendance...
...excusing any able British snob, fawning friends always write that he was at heart sensitive and shy. To this, in Curzon's case, they add the "excruciating pain" he is supposed to have suffered from a weak back, laced always into a pinching brace or corset...
...Current best-selling (in England) apologia: Curzon the Last Phase, 1919-1925, by Harold Nicolson (U. S. publishers, Houghton Mifflin...