LORD BIRKENHEAD
CORRESPONDENCE PUBLJSHED
(United Service.)
(Received this clay at noon.) LONDON, Oct. 18
Correspondence dealing with Lord Birkenhead’s withdrawal from Cabinet is officially published. In letter to the Premier, Lord Birkenhead says:—‘l am exceedingly grateful to you for having released me from my obligations at an earlier date than we discussed some months ago. ! should not have asked you to do so had not some balance of private convenience, which I have explained to you intervened. Still less should .1 have clone so had there been the slightest prospect that I could have remained long enough at the India Office to be in the discussions and decisions which the report of the Simon Commission will require.” His Majesty has approved of the appointment of Viscount Peel to he Secretary for India in succession to Lord Birkenhead and Marquess of Londonderry to he High Commissioner of Works in succession to Lord Peel.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 5
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