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...procedure and must not therefore be censured, but added that the procedure ought to be modified to protect from embarrassment or indignities innocent persons summoned to the Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner...
...three: Home Secretary Sir William "Jix" Joynson-Hicks; Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill...
...Silently acquiesced, when Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
...that the oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest. ¶ Passed through second reading a bill which would make greyhound racing illegal unless licensed by local authorities. Speaking in behalf of the bill, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks revealed that there have been forwarded to him as Home Secretary some 1,600 resolutions adopted by groups opposed to dog racing...
...Scare" was set palpitating in the Commons by Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, pious and reactionary Home Secretary...