Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Born: June 25, 1904
Died: June 4, 1976 (aged 71)
Bio: John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.
Known for:
- The Ottoman centuries
- Atatürk, the rebirth of a nation (1964)
- Grand Tour: Diary of an Eastward Journey (1935)
- The Windsor years (1967)