The Archive · 1937

Mr, Baldwin May Take Earldom

London, Mar. 10.

It Is now definitely, although un~ offlciahly, stated. that Mr. Stanley Baldwin' will retire. from the Pr miership immediately after Whitsun.

Presumably the date indicated Is about May 20, as the Premier's ent fagement list for the preceding full, including a dinner with the King and Queen on May 25.

Political correspondents here sug~ gest that Mr. Baldwin may take an earldom, and that possibly Mr. Ramsay Macdonald will also go to the House of Lords, Tt is taken for granted that Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the. Exchequer, will be the new the Admiralty, and Mr, Walter Runcl-Sir Samuel Moore, First Lord of man, President of ihe Board of Trade, are mentioned a8 Mr. Cham~ perlaln's possible successors. at the

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