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...nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
Only in the case of the Earl did hecklers score. They reminded Mr. Baldwin that Lord Birkenhead had recently written in the Good Housekeeping magazine (British) : "The incursion of women into. industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
When the Prime Minister was asked how such a statement could be squared with the Cabinet's support of the Votes For Flappers Bill, he frowned and brusquely replied: "If there has been an error of judgment on Lord Birkenhead's part, that is the worst that...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, set out from London for Berlin with Baron Ashfield, famed London subway and omnibus tycoon. A suspicious circumstance was that both peers stated that their mission would be to play many a round of golf-in Germany of all places...
Before quitting London the Secretary of State for India delivered a wholly characteristic after dinner address to the famed Authors' Club on the subject: "Women's Position in Literature." Said scathing Lord Birkenhead: ". . . Women have no position in literature...