IMPERIAL POLITICS
MR WILL CROOKS RETIRES. > THE KING EXPRESSED SYMPATHY. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 12. His Majesty the King, in aj-letter to Mr Will Crooks, expressed sympathy with him in his illness and regret at his retirement from Parliament. Further evidence of Mr,Crooks’s popularity is shown by an appeal headed by Mr Balfour, Mr' Asquith, and Mr Lloyd George to provide a fund to endow him during his declining years.—Reuter. LORD ROBERT CECIL. JOINS THE OPPOSITION. LONDON, February 12. Lord Robert Cecil, in a letter to Lord Edmund Talbot* (Coalition Unionist Whip), formally announces that he intends crossing to the front Opposition bench. He intimates that this does not .imply changed opinions, but gives him more freedom of expression.—A and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18170, 15 February 1921, Page 5
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