Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the secret and mystic meaning of your picture (TIME, Oct. 1) of "Jix" (British Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks) with the caption...
...quote Sir William as saying: "Communism is not dead yet. . . . Communists . . . are proposing even to regulate the number of a man's children by law. ... I cannot help feeling rather for the father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed...
Then you drop this footnote: "Supposing that the legal limit were six children and supposing that twins should be born to Their Majesties, who already have five children, then the position of Sir William Joynson-Hicks would be that of his hypothetical nurse...
...fail to comprehend. Why would Sir William's position be that of his hypothetical nurse? Why would he say what you attribute to him in the cut caption, if Queen Mary gave birth to twins in the circumstances mentioned...
...Sir William, as Home Secretary, has the duty of being nearby when each royal babe is born, in order that he may officially record and announce the birth...