He did excellent work at the Admiralty, work of the highest kind both before and at the outbreak of war, but his colleagues in the Cabinet never realized the importance of this work, judging it merely as "one of Winston's new crazes," Ministers speak of him in their confidences with a certain amount of affection, but never with real respect.

Many of them, of course, fear him, for he is a merciless critic, and has an element of something very like cruelty in his nature; but even those who do not fear him, or on the whole rather like him, will never tell you that he is a man to whom they turn in their difficulties, or a man to whom the whole Cabinet looks for inspiration.
General William Booth of the Salvation Army once told Mr.Churchill that he stood in need of "conversion," That old man was a notable judge of character.
LORD HALDANE LORD HALDANE The Rt.Hon.Richard Burdon Haldane was born in 1856.

Graduate of Edinburgh University; Professor of Philosophy, St.Andrew's University; Barrister, 1879; Q.C., 1890; created 1st Viscount, 1911; M.P.from Haddingtonshire, 1885-1911; Sec'y for War, 1905-12; Rector of Edinburgh Univ.; Chancellor, Univ.

of Bristol; Author of various philosophical works.
[Illustration: RT.HON.RICHARD BURDON HALDANE].