BALDWIN’S DEPUTY.
RISE OF LORD HAILSHAM. POLITICAL SURPRISE. " (“Sun” Special.) LONDON, Friday. The appointment of the Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham) —who, as Sir Douglas Hogg was formerly AttorneyGeneral—to be actiiig-Premier while Mr Baldwin is on holidays, came as a great political surprise as he was preparing to depart for Canada as the head of the delegation to the Empire Parliamentary Union. His name had not previously been mentioned as Mr Baldwin’s deputy, and it was generally understood that the mantle would fall on Sir William Joyn-son-Hieks as Home Secretary, or on the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Churchill). The fact that they were the chief protagonists in the recent Cabinet, difference over the safeguarding of industries issue added interest to the situation.
Lord Hailsham, who is 56 years old, has had a meteoric career. He commenced studying law at the age of 30, after eight years in a sugar broker’s office. Uniquely, be took a seat on pie Treasury bench at the first moment of his Parliamentary career.
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Shannon News, 24 August 1928, Page 3
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168BALDWIN’S DEPUTY. Shannon News, 24 August 1928, Page 3
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