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Show POET LAUREATE ! HOLDS HIS JOB ! I.ONIXN Jan. Hy the Associated 1 Press). Robert Bridges, poet laureate of i the British empire. i to remain In that office, degplte a suggestion that he be removed. His fitnesw to do so was ques. tlored the other day in the bouse of, comtitfHia bv Horatio Bottomley. who asked the Premier If Britain's national bard had written any poetry on the war. on the declaration of peace or on the unveiling of the cenotaph, and If not, "would the prime minister consider appointing ap-pointing a national poet whoa muse waa mora attuned to the soul of the British nation." Premier IJoyd George replied that far as he was awsre, the poet laureate had written nothing about the events mentioned, but Mr. Bridges had written many poems dun or the war, and it was not considered necessary to make; any change. A wag In the house raised loud laiurMer by solemnly suggesting that Mr. Hot-temley Hot-temley himself should ta.ke over the ob. When another member suggested that ftudyard Kipling should be offered the post, there was achora o "No!" Mr. Hrldgea was appointed laureate by former Premier Aaquith. his friend and admirer. In 1911. |