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...Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, announced sepulchrally last week that the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) has cost more than the Boer...
...182Noted that Lady Astor remained straight lipped, even when Jones achieved the excruciating West Ham witticism of shouting at Home Secretary ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks: "You're getting coal every day from filthy German Huns to break the coal strike! All right! Get your coal from Hell...
...182Approved by a majority of 129, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks' project to devote ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) to the importation of coal. Said "Jix": "The Government's decision to purchase coal in quantities is prompted by a resolve that the poor must not be deprived of fuel. . . . The Government will not supply coal to large users who can import it on their own account...
...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...
Transparently the Baldwin Cabinet is badly strained over its attitude toward Russia. Ministers Churchill, Joynson-Hicks and Lord Birkenhead, ultra -Conservatives, reputedly did all in their power last week to induce Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Premier Baldwin and other cool heads to "stop selling British pots to Bolshevik cannibals...