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Show Bonar Law, Britain's Prime Minister I -- V k ' " ' Andrew Bonar Law (portrait herewith) who has succeeded David Lloyd George as premier of Great Britain, divides the attention of English-speaking peoples with his predecessor. prede-cessor. Incidentally Law is the first Canadian-born premier; he was born In 1858 in New Brunswick. He was at one time an "Iron merchant" In Glasgow. Law Is an excellent parliamentarian. parliamentari-an. He plays the game keenly, but according to the rules of It. As a Scot, he clips his words, clean and short, and has the somewhat perilous habit In these days of depending, as. far as he dare, on memory alone for his speeches. On the whole, for a speaker without notes, big Indiscretions Indiscre-tions have been curiously few. During the war he suffered several terrible bereavements and worked himself almost to death, whence arose blood pressure, so sudden that it was assnmed, for the moment, that he hod been more seriously stricken. Amid universal sympathy he resigned, and while there was nothing diplomatic about the doctors' orders, nor any suggestion that Bonar Law was playing other than a straightforward part, the fact remains that had he continued In the cabinet he could not have taken the independent line which he did take at the Carlton club ai d would not have been, as he Is today, prime minister. |
