The public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†—Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats out of the bag.
Russian Cat. The Churchill-Birkenhead clique, arch-Russophobes, dictated (as their share of the Cabinet compromise) a note of "protest and warning" to the Soviet Government. The language of this note was not...
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