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Excerpt from John Morley and Other Essays
In the very first days of the war, before the full enormity of Germany's aggression had been displayed, and when there was a lingering suspicion that hostilities might have been averted by a more open handling of the diplomatic situation, Lord Morley, with Mr. John Burns and Sir Charles Trevelyan, saw fit to resign from the ministry. It was the general im pressio-n that they were induced to take the step by one or both of two considerations: first, that the conduct of any war, no matter how inevitable, would have been too strik ingly inconsistent with their principles and public records; and second, that they had previously opposed the military convention between Britain and France and were unwilling to share the responsibility for its consequences. It is a trib ute to the high reputation these gentlemen enjoyed that even in the danger and excitement of the war they were never, in any serious quarter, charged with other than pure motives for this action. Lord Morley is as greatly honored to-day as he was six years ago, and it has been a pleasure to note that not even party passion broke the general chorus of ap proval when he was announced as one of the bene ficiaries under Mr. Carnegie's will. In any discussion of Lord Morley's withdrawal from public life it should be remembered that in 1914 he was seventy-six years old and may well have felt that his age rendered it unwise for him to share the toil of a war ministry.
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