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...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...
...London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip the round table with witnesses...
...religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard Shaw, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Birkenhead, Winston Churchill, Dean Inge. He has written more than 50 books. Some of them: Tono Bungay, The History of Mr. Polly, The Wife of Sir Isaac Barman, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Tales of Space and Time, Anticipations, New Worlds for Old, God the Invisible King...
...good lawyer would, Lord Birkenhead did not at once reply to Scientist Haldane's charges, took time to make a thorough study of his adversary, ended by finding his weak point. Moreover the Earl did not see why he should not make a good thing out of answering the charge of plagiarism. He made a good thing of it last week by selling his 3,000-word answer to the Daily Express which ballyhooed it as "exclusive...
Obviously a man of that sort has no right to charge anybody with plagiarism, and the Earl of Birkenhead was at liberty to hand himself bouquets for writing a work of "pure science." Almost lost amid this sweet-smelling foliage was the passing admission that of course a number of Mr. Haldane's ideas were drawn upon. And was not the fellow handsomely rewarded? Did he not have his name mentioned in the Birkenhead book as one of those to whom the Earl is "indebted...