Word: strickland
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Gouty peers could but snort their sympathy when Lord Strickland solemnly assured the House that on his present visit to London he has been unable to get a word with his chief: the Laborite Secretary of State for the Colonies, Baron Passneld of Passfield Corner...
...House of Lords last week Baron Strickland of Sizergh Castle, Prime Minister of the Colony of Malta, complained most bitterly to his peers...
...Empire has come to a pretty pass, said Lord Strickland in effect, when the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London actually refuses to speak with the Prime Minister of a colony about a grave crisis in that colony...
Bowlegged little Baron Passfield was present during the harangue. Unruffled, foxy, he made a remarkable excuse. He said that Roman Catholic feeling in Malta runs so high that he did not want to receive Baron Strickland without also receiving Roman Catholic dignitaries, and he did not want to receive them. Oddly enough Lord Strickland is himself a Roman Catholic-one who, as His Majesty's Prime Minister, puts King and Country first...
...Hoover Administration would have done, the MacDonald Government has decided to send a commission to Malta, and Lord Passfield assured Lord Strickland last week that this commission will very soon...