BRITISH EMPIRE: The Week in Parliament Jun. 14, 1926

The Commons—

¶Noted with attention the quashing of a proposal before the Senate of Cambridge University to confer upon onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald a doctorate of laws, honoris causa. In Laborite Macdonald’s case the Senators were reputedly averse to following the Cambridge tradition of conferring an honorary degree upon all premiers.

¶Listened with an air of boredom while Laborites heckled the Home Secretary, Sir William (“Jix”) Joynson-Hicks, because the Government had acceded to a request by the Irish Free State that Charles Edward Russell, U. S. Socialist, be forbidden to land at Plymouth. The austere “Jix” frigidly made clear in his reply that Russell has been informed that he may land in England upon promising not to enter the Irish Free State, where he is deemed “too radical” by the local government.