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...Earl Birkenhead. "Every member of this House knows that not one of the peeresses proposed for admission would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
Transparently the Baldwin Cabinet is badly strained over its attitude toward Russia. Ministers Churchill, Joynson-Hicks and Lord Birkenhead, ultra -Conservatives, reputedly did all in their power last week to induce Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Premier Baldwin and other cool heads to "stop selling British pots to Bolshevik cannibals...
...Thank God for Russia!" The Earl of Birkenhead, bitter-ender Tory, Secretary of State for India, lashed at "Emperor" A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, as follows in a public address...
Despatches stated that Sir Robert had reckoned as negligible Lord Birkenhead's reputed proclivities for gaming tables, toddies and toasts of every kind. The rich shipowner was envisioned by many of his intimates as anxious to testify to his long intimacy with the potent statesman by bequeathing Wealth to Power. All Britain was a-tiptoe when the will was probated at Jersey, England, late in the week. Sir Robert left his entire fortune to his widow...
...friends confusedly about-faced, recalled that Sir Robert used to dye his beard, remembered that Lord Birkenhead once called him "the only genuine dye-hard," advanced the press-trumpeted sensationalism that Sir Robert "made the Earl of Birkenhead pay £7,000,000 for a jest...