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Russian Cat. The Churchill-Birkenhead clique, arch-Russophobes, dictated (as their share of the Cabinet compromise) a note of "protest and warning" to the Soviet Government. The language of this note was not that of diplomacy. It was intelligible to the man in the street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary...
...Russian note then matched almost line for line the anti-British outburst of Soviet statesmen with similar virulently anti-Russian utterances from Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, and Colonel Amery. Shrewd, M. Litvinov, pointed out that no Anglo-Russian "agreement exists limiting the liberty of the press or speech within the boundaries of either country...
Chinese Cat. With the Churchill-Birkenhead Russophobe cat out of the Cabinet's bag and mewing rather plaintively in the streets, Sir Austen Chamberlain could rejoice in the enthusiastic reception given by the whole British press to an announcement he was able to make, last week, concerning China...
Secretary of State for India-The Earl of Birkenhead...
Baldwin, steady country squire and ironmaster; Chamberlain, austerely Victorian Birmingham politician; Churchill, hot-head of a half-dozen simultaneous careers; Joynson-Hicks, plus royaliste que le roi; Amery, implacable Imperialist; Birkenhead, a lawyer, brilliant, fashionable, yet most profound: these are Britain...