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...Churchill's outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
...which were cabled last week to the British miners' "strike fund" by Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at this, recalling how the Trada Union Council which directed the "general strike" had gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian gift in any case, because he had personally stopped the Soviet money transfer under the Emergency Power Act. Sir William magnanimously added that, although the Emergency Power Act was still...
...prognosticated the General Strike "way back in 1923" but was, like Cassandra, ignored. He goes on to reveal that upon a proscription list found in a Communistic den his name stood second only to that of Winston Churchill. Third in line for the gibbet was Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary of Mr, Baldwin's cabinet...
Capitulation. Both sides having pondered well this "memorandum," certain further assurances were conveyed in deadly secret. Soon Mr. Pugh led the Trade Union Council to No. 10 Downing St., the Premier's official residence. Within were the Premier and six* of his Ministers, fire-eaters "Winnie" Churchill and "Jix" Joynson-Hicks being conspicuously absent...
Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...