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...James Ramsay MacDonald after his second (right) eye operation, visited the Prime Minister and told him severely to stop fidgeting and lie perfectly still as his doctors recommended. Less fidgety after this Royal command. Scot MacDonald improved rapidly, left London for a month's complete rest at his Lossiemouth home, "The Hillocks...
...Lossiemouth, Scotland on Oct. 12, 1866 at 11:30 p. m. the future Prime Minister was born to Miss Anne Ramsay. Patient investigators can still see the birth certificate attesting him a bastard in the Parish Registry at Drainie. In signing the certificate Miss Ramsay termed herself a "domestic servant," called her son "James MacDonald Ramsay." Later the boy was called James Ramsay MacDonald. Today the British Who's Who explains that his father was "J. MacDonald...
Miss Rose Rosenberg would not say where the Prime Minister had gone. Faithful secretary, she kept his secret for two days last week. He was not at Lossiemouth. not at Chequers, not at "No. 10" (Downing Street). To be quite alone, to escape even from familiar furniture and beloved books, James Ramsay MacDonald went secretly to a country house placed at his disposal by Earl De La Warr. There with awful Scotch solemnity he searched his soul, faced a decision which if taken would mean a final break with...
Rested and refreshed after a week-end at Lossiemouth, Ramsay MacDonald flew back to London last week with a large bunch of white heather in his buttonhole and posed for his picture in the garden of No. 10 Downing St. Secretary for Dominions & Colonies James Henry Thomas begged a sprig for good luck, so did Stanley Baldwin and the rest. When every buttonhole burgeoned with Ramsay's white heather, shutters clicked at the entire National Cabinet...
...been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, rested for a month. Prime Minister MacDonald motored the 120 mi. from Lossiemouth to pay him a two-day visit. Later Mr. Stimson had to deny formally that they had discussed War debt revision...