Word: birkenhead
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Jacked up upon the ways of the great naval shipyard at Birkenhead, a new British battleship, said to be the heaviest and most powerful in the world, awaited only its christening as H.M. SS. Rodney, before slipping into the eternal brine...
...list of signatories in full: Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Lord Birkenhead and C. S. Amery for the British Government; William T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins, Mr. Blythe and Mr. O'Byrne for the Free State ; and for Northern Ireland Sir James Craig and J. Blackmore, Secretary to tha Northern Ireland Cabinet...
...Earl of Birkenhead...
...away, the Government of India is now deliberating the matter. If it decides against the Begum's favorite, she will at once appeal to the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Earl of Birkenhead. Thankfully British statesmen learned that she had brought her own curry cook, opining that had she not done so they might have been harder put to provide her with orthodox viands than to unravel the legal knot of her succession...
...with the Swarajists; but whether the latter will cooperate with the Government, as they have tended recently to do, will have to wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire of India...