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Show A Journalist Bought Suez. j The journalist Is often the man behind i the statesman, but he seldom gets the rredtt. Who was tt that induced Mr. Disraeli to buy the Suez canal shares which have proved so abundantly good an investment, with dividends that are represented not only by money, though even from that point of view it is the best investment that a state has ever made? Fleet street knows and honors the name of Frederick Greenwood, both for that reason and for many another. But how many outside the world of journalism jour-nalism realize that but for Mr. Greenwood Green-wood the Suez canal shares would probably prob-ably have been purchased by a rival continental con-tinental power? The question was among those put in a ''general intelligence" examination ex-amination paper a littte time back at a certain school. Only one boy was able to answer It correctly, and he was the son of the prime minister. London Daily Chronicle. |