New York Times, August 18, 1939 LORD BALDWIN Thirteen years or more ago Lord Baldwin, who had been Prime Minister and was at the moment, by right of his familiarity with the classics, the president of the Classical Association of England, made an address under the title' "Ultimi Britanni." Those who heard him or read his address on Wednesday night will know with what .strength and guidance he has in his day carried the torch on high in that great "relay of heroes," fighting in < preparation for the new age, "talking f to the people about democracy" and ex- ! emplifying the democratic spirit, which ' refuses to underrate the ordinary man. | T. P. O'Connor, back in 1923, told of t reading in Hansards the speeches made by Mr. Baldwin in his earliest Minis- . terial days, usually late at night'and to a "thin audience," and of being struck by the neat "turn of the dic- tion," its "points and lucidity," and, above all, by the frequent happy and good-humored phrases, comporting with the best tradition of the House of Com- mons. When the day of his Ordeal came, and he had to enter the "fiery furnace" by rising to answer questions as Leader of the House, he passed through in triumph and "smelt not < burning" on his garments. It was same historical figure that Mr. B win himself used in speaking to friends of the classics of his pass through the ordeal of elections the assistance of literature that vented him from bowing to the i of the market place. He was kept from ' of the ancient languages in which he had been disciplined in youth. There had been fears at times since the World War when, as he said, "fears gripped us by the throat * * * taking grisly shapes in the twilight"— fears that there, might not be enough left of the "best breed" to carry on. But, as he has since said, in. these later years, no one doubts that though their task is hard enough it will be accom- plished. Our common task is greater "because our [common] ideals are far of a chorus in Euripides does "pluck at i our heart-strings," as the Premier has I said, but they give a glory that is ' beyond all other guerdon to the human I spirit. This great statesman, who spoke in his early Prime Ministry with a yearning sigh for his farms, who de- clines to take himself tragically, and who has at great inconvenience come to speak to and of democracy in the world, has won the enduring gratitude of a new generation as well as of his own.