The official announcement that, on his elevation to the peerage,
Sir Edmund Ironside is taking the title of Baron Ironside of Archangel indicates a deplorable disregard of political considerations. The Allied force which the new peer commanded at Archangel in 1918, and whose achievements he desires to perpetuate in his new title, was engaged in fight- ing for all it was worth against the present rulers of Russia, whose attitude to this country at the present time is anything but a matter of indifference. If we are not able to establish particularly cordial relations with Russia—through no fault of our own—nothing is gained by providing invaluable propa- ganda to enemy propagandists. Gazette or no Gazette I trust Lord Ironside may decide that he should, and find that he still can, choose some other territorial designation. I suggest Baron Ironside of Michaelstow in Cornwall as being sufficiently, but not blatantly, archangelic. A few acres could, I am sure, be acquired in that parish to justify it.
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