had the privilege of his society and knew him as 'The Sage.' Some of them, who have
come to high place in the life of the Dominion, will not be slow to acknowledge the value
of the inspiration and enlightenment which they derived from him. Continually he
preached the doctrine to his young friends that it was their duty, if fortune had placed
them in comfortable circumstances, to give some of their time to the intelligent study of
public affairs and to the service of the community, and he awakened in not a few minds
for the first time the idea that there were better goals in life than the making of money. It
is true that the Round Table Groups which he organized with such enthusiasm have now
faded into oblivion, but many of their members did not lose the zest for an intelligent
study of politics which Glazebrook had implanted in them, and after the last war they
proved keen supporters of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs as an agency for
continuing the political education which Glazebrook had begun."
5. That Curtis consulted with Lord Chelmsford on the planned reforms before Lord
Chelmsford went to India in 1916 was revealed in the House of Lords by Lord Crewe on
12 December 1919, and by Curtis in his book
6.
7. See R. H. Brand, ed.,
8. See R. H. Brand, ed.,
9. Some of Milner's Canadian speeches in 1908 and in 1912 will be found in
published by Glazebrook in June 1917 as an aid to the war effort. It bore on the cover the
inscription "The Round Table in Canada." Curtis's speech, so far as I can determine, is
unpublished.
10. See R. L. Schuyler, "The Rise of Anti-Imperialism in England," in
11. All of these papers will be found in
12. The ideas expressed by Lionel Curtis were really Milner's ideas. This was publicly
admitted by Milner in a speech before a conference of British and Dominion
parliamentarians called together by the Empire Parliamentary Association, 28 July 1916.
At this meeting "Milner expressed complete agreement with the general argument of Mr.
Curtis, making lengthy quotations from his book, and also accepted the main lines of his
plan for Imperial Federation. The resulting discussion showed that not a single Dominion
Member present agreed either with Mr. Curtis or Lord Milner." H. D. Hall,
was expressed briefly by Milner in 1913 in the Introduction to
13. Milner's two letters were in Cecil Headlam, ed.,
London, 1931-1933), I, 159-160 and 267; On Edward Wood's role, see A. C. Johnson,
basis for political matters and on a functional basis for economic matters was advocated
by
reconstruction' in the issue of September 1917. The former type was accepted by Curtis
as a method for solving the Irish problem and as a method which might well have been
used in solving the Scottish problem in 1707. He wrote: "The continued existence in
Edinburgh and London of provincial executives and legislatures, entrusted respectively
with interests which were strictly Scottish and strictly English, was not incompatible with
the policy of merging Scots and Englishmen in a common state. The possibility of
distinguishing local from general interests had not as yet been realized." Again, he wrote:
"If ever it should prove expedient to unburden the Parliament of the United Kingdom by
delegating to the inhabitants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales the management of
their own provincial affairs and the condition of Ireland should prove no bar to such a
measure, the Irish problem will once for all have been closed"—
14. R. H. Brand, ed.,
15. "The Financial and Economic Future" in
114-134. The quotation is from pages 121-123.