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...Birkenhead give public assurance that the bill has a chance to be accepted if it is indorsed by Pandit Motilal Nehru and any other he may name and I will undertake to obtain their signatures...
There was more to it than that. Behind Mr. Churchill were assumed to be Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and the Secretary for India, Lord Birkenhead, all ex-coalition Ministers. Nasty things were said about Mr. Churchill; he was credited with a desire to oust Premier Baldwin and, with the aid of his coalition comrades, to install himself as Premier...
...Cabinet committee, headed by Lord Birkenhead and created to consider the Admiralty's plea for six new cruisers, approved the construction of four...
...Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, made a long statement on Indian affairs. The subject was whether or no the 1919 Government of India Act (conferring limited responsible government) would be revised before the stipulated date of 1929. The Cabinet, said Lord Birkenhead, had not reached a decision; but he could say that "the door of acceleration was not open to menace, and still less could it be stormed by violence...
...Following the uproar of Parliament over the propriety of Cabinet Ministers (Lord Birkenhead, in particular) writing articles for the press, Premier Stanley Baldwin announced in the House that he had spoken about the matter to Lord Birkenhead, who promised to cease his interesting journalistic efforts, except for a monthly magazine to which he was under contract to write a number of historical papers. "The rule may, therefore, be taken as reëstablished,"* observed the Premier, "that members during their term of office will not contribute to journalism...