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Since then, the Prime Minister has incontestibly improved his position.

- He made strenuous efforts to reconcile Lord Birkenhead and -Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and though the negotiations themselves cannot be said to have been conducted on the lines of classic diplomacy (Mr. Baldwin first invited Lord Birken- head and Mr. Chamberlain to join the Cabinet ; then discovered that his Cabinet would not receive them and had to withdraw his offer and merely asked them for their support in the campaign, which, of course, they would anyhow have given), he has, undoubtedly, been able to preserve at any rate a formal unity with the so-called ex-Ministers.

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