Error of Judgment

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 9

Error of Judgment

BIRKENHEAD’S ARTICLE

MR. BALDWIN QUESTIONED (United P.A. — liv Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Thursday. In the House of Commons, Messrs. T. Johnson and J. R. Clynes (Labour) closely questioned the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in reference to the Earl of Birkenhead's past and Mr. Winston Churchill’s forthcoming articles in magazines, in view of Mr. Baldwin’s ban against Ministers writing for the Press. Mr. Baldwin pointed out that he had always distinguished between journalistic articles, controversial questions, and literary, historical or philosophical writings, also between contributions to the daily and weekly Press and in books and magazines. Mr. Churchill had undertaken that his contributions would strictly conform with the embargo.

Lord Birkenhead’s reeent article dealing with the position of women certainly touched the fringe of current controversy, and in a sense was different from the general view of the Government, but it was only an isolated chapter from a book that Lord Birkenhead was writing. The worst he could say was that Lord Birkenhead was guilty of an error of judgment.