BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE
LORD BIRKENHEAD’S AMBITION 'DAILY HERALD’S’ ALLEGATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 20. The diplomatic correspondent of the * Daily Herald ’ states that it is persistently rumoured that if Lord Birkenhead succeeds in his present mission to Berlin, which is a diplomatic and not a golfing one, he will replace Sir Austen Chamberlain in the Foreign Office. For a long time the extremist section of the Cabinet has triad to oust Sir Austen Chamberlain, whom they regard as too moderate and cautions in dealing with Russia. Sir Austen, by assenting unenthusiastically to the Anglo-Russian rapture, momentarily silenced his critics, but they now complain that he has not followed up the master stroke, which might have caused a collapse of tho Soviet. , , . Lord Birkenhead has long hankered for tho Foreign Office, and may get his way eventually, though the Foreign Office itself is 'fearful lest some of_ Ins idiosyncrasies may handicap his dealings with foreign ambassadors. —Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 4
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