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From the day Henry Bruere took the Chamberlain's job, he announced that it ought to be abolished. Certainly he did it within the first week. He said it was an obsolete post. It had a historical reason for existing and was part of the ceremonial but it had ceased to be of any consequence whatever. It was just an ornamental job and ought to be abolished. He would take the post and do whatever seemed to be required. He said he would use the spare time he had to assist the Mayor on everything that had to do with operating.

He acted as Assistant Mayor, really. He was in everything. He had a roving commission to be in anything that as of interest. He never butted in. He was a very tactful, diplomatic man even in those days. He has a very fine command of language for the purposes for which he wants to use it. He wasn't born that way, but he developed that. He has the natural qualities of a mediator - a very just man, even at that age when he was thirty-odd and not completely developed. He has a very great sense of the fact that this other man might be right. There was a possibility that the opponent was correct. At least justice required him to listen to it, to evaluate his ideas and if possible find, not a middle ground, but a combination, a blending, of the elements that were good in the opposition idea and in the administration idea. He was very good, indeed, in that.