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Grey River Argus, 21 April 1928, Page 5

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WRITING FOR THE PRESS. BALDWIN GETS HOME ON BIRKENHEAD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 19. In the Commons, Messrs Johnston and Clynes closely questioned Air Baldwin in reference to Lord Birkenhead’s past, and Air Churchill’s forthcoming articles in magazines, in view of Air Baldwin’s ban against Ministers writing for the Press. Air Baldwin pointed out that he had always distinguished between journalistic articles on controversial questions and literary, historical or philosophical writings also between contributions to daily and weekly press and in books and magazines. Air Churchill had undertaken that his contributions would strictly conform with the embargo. Lord Birkenhead’s recent articles dealing with the position of women certainly touched a fringe of current contorversy, and in a sense was different from the general view of the Government, but was only an isolated chapter from a book Lord Birkenhead was writing. The worst he could say was that Lord Birkenhead was guilty of an error of judgment.