Foreign News: Lips Unsealed

Whether or not Britain's Prime Minister can accurately be called "Bumbler Baldwin" has been a grave Empire question to which Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., last week gravely addressed himself in the House of Commons.

The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, is the No. I member of the ruling British Conservative Party. No. 2 member is the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and younger half-brother of Sir Austen, who today figures as perhaps the Empire's leading "elder statesman."

In measured accents before a hushed House of Commons last week, Sir...

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