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...most British of Britons, famed Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, went out to Hunterston Castle, Ayrshire, and verbally propped the prestige of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
People have been saying that the Cabinet is politically on the rocks, and especially that a three-sided split had opened between "Jix," Mr. Baldwin and "Winston." The latter statesman is the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer; and "Jix" is His Majesty's tall, frock-coated, impeccable Secretary of State for Home Affairs...
...Said "Jix" to gaping Ayrshire yokels, while London listened: "All the stories you have heard or read about dissension in the Cabinet are absolutely without foundation. Mr. Churchill is, like myself, entirely in agreement with the policy the Prime Minister has laid down . . . , and on that policy the Conservative Party can unite [for the 1929 election...
Since no words can cloak the fact that Sir William is a protectionist and Mr. Churchill a free trader, that fundamental disagreement between them was dismissed jocularly by "Jix" thus: "I should like to point out that this is the first occasion I have spoken in public since I made one of my indiscreet [protectionist] speeches some months...
...Finally "Jix" launched into his grand, eternal theme: the "Red Scare...