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Show ENGLAND'S PEACE ADVOCATE j One thing European statesmen and writers are agreed upon is in giving the British minister for foreign affairs af-fairs the credit of winding up the Balkan war and in preserving the greatly threatened peace of the remainder re-mainder of Europe. Signor E. Emanuel, a noted Italian diplomat and writer, for instance, says: "It was a stroke of good fortune for-tune for the Liberal party as soon as It returned to power to be able to entrust the direction of foreign policy to Sir Edward Grey, who during the South African war had separated him-j him-j self from the party and avowed him- 'elf an Imperialist. His Liberalism was enlightened tempered by a sense of reality and respect for the spirit of the race. Quietly, without any shock, he was able to take up and develop the work of Lord Lansdowne when the advent of the Liberals to power had caused a fear lest the foreign V ' A (Policy of the United Kingdom might undergo an abrupt and radical change. From the outset of his career as minister he was able, naturally and with innate facility, to find the just path, , and this reassured all those, within the diplomatic world and without, who feared that the assumption of power by the Radicals might be fatal to England's Eng-land's prestige and Interests." , . Straightforwardness, in the opinion of Signor Emanuel, is the wort . which, better than any other, accounts for the success of "this exceptional statesman." His program has been, "Make new friendships without renouM toe the old ones," and he has faith In H realization. |