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Show oo EX-AMBASSADOR IS VERY BUSY MAN The Right Honorable .lames Bryee. when he left the Hritish Embassy at i Washington, announced that he was retiring from public life That may I have been true, but like many another retired Rritlsh statesmen, he Is find-that find-that he Is busier in his retirement than he was as an ambassador Since his return from his around-the-world trip Mr. Bryce had not many davs to hlni6elf. He did for a few weeks g'1 into retirement at bis modest country home, ' Hlndleap, Forest Row Sussex, but this retirement retire-ment was almost entirely taken up in writing, for Mr Rrycc Is certain to give the public something about the countries he Mted after leaving America His real work henceforth however, will doubtless le, as one writer has aptly put It, "to express the needs of the community upon the broader sides of life." 9ince his return re-turn Mr Bryce has delivered a number num-ber of addresses on a great variety of subjects. As popular as he was In America as a speaker, he is likely to become quite as popular In his own country The former amhassador to America is not alone In his practice of devot Ing his talent to the enlightenment and services of his coyntry, after' his retirement fmm active, work. Another An-other of these is Sir Edward Fry, who a few days ago attained the age of eighty-six It Is twenty-one yearn since Sir Edward resigned his seat as a lx)nl Iitstice of iho Court of appeal, and In that time he has served in many useful capacities, not the least of which has been as one of England s representatives in the peace conferences confer-ences at The Hague. oo |