LABOUR PAPER'S STORY.
AMBITION OF BIRKENHEAD. SEEKS CHAMBERLAIN'S POST. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received April 22, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April,2l. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Herald says it is persistently rumoured that if the Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, succeeds in his present diplomatic —not golfing —mission to Berlin lie will replace Sir Austen Chamberlain as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Labour paper asserts that for a long time past the extremist members of the Cabinet have been trying to oust Sir Austen, whom they regard as too moderate and too cautious in dealing with Russia.
By assenting without enthusiasm to the Anglo-Russian rupture Sir Austen momentarily silenced his critics, says the paper, but they now complain that the Foreign Secretary has not followed up the master-stroke which might have caused the collapse of the Soviet. Lord Birkenhead, it says, has long hankered for the Foreign Office and he may get his way eventually. Foreign Office officials, however, are fearful lest , some of his idiosyncracies should handicap their dealings with foreign Ambassadors.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19928, 23 April 1928, Page 11
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179LABOUR PAPER'S STORY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19928, 23 April 1928, Page 11
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