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...Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
Finally, the Empire's settled conviction that Stanley Baldwin always means well is as a pillar of potency to the members of his Cabinet. It enabled Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to bring off in triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral...
...been a mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried he: "Romish practices have been tolerated too long in the Church of England! The bishops know not how to suppress these practices and so they propose to surrender to them. Today [sarcastically] it is to those Bishops who have proved their impotence [against Romish influences] that this...
Significance. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, or "Jix" in popular parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Last week "Jix" apparently staked all on the chance of being able to produce documents sufficiently charged with social dynamite to excuse violation of Soviet diplomatic immunity. The Sunday Observer, a newspaper of Sir William's own party (Conservative) spoke last week of "the dilemma in which the British Government has been thrown by its lack of coordination" (i.e. by "Jix's" independent action...