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H G deLisser wrote feelingly about Governor Swettenham and the American Admiral Davis, at the time of Swettenham's death in
1933
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| Daily Gleaner 1933 04 28 |
Intellectually his outlook was narrow, but it was intense His sympathies were restricted, but they were strong. He believed
in the British Empire, he believed in the self-respect and independence of every part of the British Empire, unfortunately
his sterling qualities were not informed as much as they might have been with that wide understanding of nations and men which
is rightly considered an essential attribute of sound statesmanship; the result was that when a crisis came in his career
and in Jamaica's affairs, those very qualities of his that made him so outstanding a figure brought about his precipitous
downfall.
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Yet he did establish a principle, and put on record a fact which we of today should never forget. That principle was that
self-respect and dignity and self-help are amongst the most valuable qualities of a man or of a people, the fact was that
the people of Jamaica entirely supported the principle affirmed when it stood by the Governor who had lost them American aid,
and never failed to respect him throughout the length of his life.
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