Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Exactly as if nothing had happened, Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin came out last week for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.). This was his second coming. Originally he was cold toward this scheme concocted by Baron Beaverbrook, Hearstlike press tycoon, but embraced it last spring to prevent a split in Conservative ranks. Three weeks ago he broke absolutely with Baron Beaverbrook (TIME, July 7). Then, last fortnight, came the British Bankers' Manifesto demanding "Empire Free Trade." By the end of last week Mr. Baldwin had heeded the bankers and plumped for E. F. T. again. Meantime...
...therefore I, John Lawrence, Baron Stonehaven, the Governor-General aforesaid, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby prohibit the importation into the Commonwealth of Australia of the following goods unless the consent in writing of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs has first been obtained...
...abrupt break in the stockmarket at Bombay, followed by closing of the Exchange "indefinitely" was a result last week of an address by Baron Irwin to both Houses of the Indian Legislative Assembly, still fuming over the Simon report (TIME, June 30 et ante). Baron Irwin said that he spoke "rather as friend than as Viceroy," referred to India as a "country," declared in ringing tones: "His Majesty's Government last year authorized me to declare that, in its view, the attainment of dominion status was the natural completion of India's constitutional growth. That declaration was made and [despite...
...made Baron Irwin a peer and then sent him to India as Viceroy? None other than the late Conservative Government (1924-29) in which the Earl of Birkenhead was Secretary of State for India. Last week Conservative papers called their Viceroy a "silly dreamer," accused him of having gone pinko-Socialist to please Scot MacDonald...
...Baron Beaverbrook then to achieve his consuming ambition? Will he become Prime Minister? Will he then make Viscount Rothermere's only son, Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, British Ambassador to Somewhere, as that young man and his doting father hope? Even in the face of last week's "miracle" such a development seemed remote?but the old guard politicians must work fast to avert...