Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...
Scarcely two months ago, with the diplomatic conference of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald, there was forged the latest and strongest link in the chain. With this recent development, the outlook for the future is indeed brighter; public sentiment coupled with public recognition of a need is the first requisite of an extensive reform...
...Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like the Heathen Chinee, he and his Liberals sat impassive, refused to go into either division lobby, abstained from voting. Scowling, the Conservatives followed the Clydesiders; scowling blacker the regular Laborites filed into the Government's lobby...
...with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else, try to say what President Hoover has said, statistics carefully cooked by the League...
Since the Hoover-MacDonald Conference will deal only with naval disarmament, the Welshman had successfully wangled into the record that he is the champion of things bigger, broader, better...