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Observers noted that during his "five great years," as he calls them, Lord Reading was virtually a sovereign represented at London by the Secretary of State for India, a post now held by Lord Birkenhead (see p. 11). He was the first Jewish Viceroy, and at the time of his departure for India many doubted that a Jew could uphold Anglo-Saxon prestige among Moslems and Hindus. His success in conciliating Mahatma Gandhi, fomenter of Indian "resistance by non-cooperation," amply disproved the fears of anti-Semites. Last week Indians expressed pleasure at the elevation of Lord Reading...
...generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete...
...majority of the native Indian Princes, "the subordinate allies of the King-Emperor George V," rallied to the Maharaja of Indore and apparently so alarmed the Earl of Birkenhead, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, that he is universally believed to have advised the Viceroy not to press for the trial of the Maharaja, who could be tried, in any case, only by a court of his Indian peers...
...Earl of Birkenhead's Law of Property. Admirers of Charles Dickens have often chuckled at his celebrated legal caricature, the suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which like time itself went on forever to the enrichment of generations of barristers and the utter ruin of their clients...
...Lord High Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...