Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite M.P. and a staunch fighter for Palestine and Jewish causes in the House of Commons, was yesterday elevated to a peerage. He was made a Baron and in the future will sit in the House of Lords.
Wedgwood is 69 and has been the member for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 1906. In the first Labor government he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. For his part in the landing at Gallipoli in the World War he won the Distingufshed Service Order. It is felt here that his services in the House of Commons will be sorely missed, although it means the addition of a militant pro-Jewish spokesman to the House of Lords.
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