Death of Haldane

If Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years.

But if he had died in 1915, an ungrateful Britain would have remembered him as an Internationalist who once called Germany his "spiritual home," as a public servant strongly suspected of disloyalty, closely akin to treachery.

Last week, in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, Lord Haldane died. A grateful Britain, recovered from Wartime hysteria, will Remember him as an elder statesman, an important factor in the Allied victory and as one of the most distinguished philosophers of his time.