Identifier: mirrorsofdowning00begb (find matches)
Title: The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Politics and government 1910-1936
Publisher: New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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civilization, and here he trusted not to vision and con-
science but to compromise, makeshift, patches, and the
future of civilization is still dark indeed.
This I hope may be said on his behalf when he stands

MR. LLOYD GEORGE 17

at the bar of history, that the cause of his failure to serve
the world as he might have done, as Gladstone surely
would have done, was due rather to a vulgarity of mind
for which he was not wholly responsible than to any
deliberate choice of a cynical partnership with the
powers of darkness.

LORD GARNOCK

LORD CARNOCK, 1ST BARON
(ARTHUR NICOLSON, 11TH BART.)

Born, 1849. Educ: Rugby and Oxford; in Foreign Office, 1870-74;
Secretary to Earl Granville, 1872-74; Embassy at Berlin, 1874-76; at
Pekin, 1876-78; Charge, Athens, 1884-85; Teheran, 1885-88; Consul-
General, Budapest, 1888-93; Embassy, Constantinople, 1894; Minister,
Morocco, 1895-1904; Ambassador, Madrid, 1904-5; Ambassador,
Russia, 1905-10; Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1910-16. Author
of the History of the German Constitution, 1873.
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LORD CARNOCK

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CHAPTER II

LORD CARNOCK

" Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers
pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves
with less noise."—SECKER.

One evening in London I mentioned to a man well
versed in foreign affairs that I was that night meeting
Lord Carnock at dinner. " Ah"! he exclaimed, " the
man who made the war."
I mentioned this remark to Lord Carnock. He
smiled and made answer," What charming nonsense!"
I asked him what he thought was in my friend's mind.
" Oh, I see what he meant," was the answer; " but it is a
wild mind that would say any one man made the war."
Later, after some remarks which I do not feel myself
at liberty to repeat, he said: " Fifty years hence I think
a historian will find it far more difficult than we do now
to decide who made the war."
If Lord Carnock were to write his memoirs, not only
would that volume help the historian to follow the
immediate causes of the war to one intelligible origin,
but it would also afford the people of England
an opportunity of seeing the conspicuous difference be-

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