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...long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime Ministership to Stanley Baldwin. Last week...
...King George today is that Britain's markedly successful National Government sprang from a discreet stroke of statecraft by His Majesty. Three years ago George V is supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish...
...republic, he quit. When King Gustaf forced Finland to destroy the Aland forts, General Mannerheim was pained as a strategist, as a true monarchist and as a loyal Finn. Today he lives, as becomes a Grand Old Man, quietly in Helsingfors with his Russian wife, accepting honorary figurehead positions. Not one to go off halfcocked, he lately said, "The dismantling of the Aland Island fortifications has created immense new dangers for Finland and Sweden...
...approved the idea. All Washington felt that the General, his usefulness over, was soon departing. Three days before the happy interview last week the General himself outlined a plan for a new NRA headed not by one man but by a board of which he himself would be a figurehead chairman. When it was announced that the NRAdministrator would take a two-week rest at the seashore, it was prophesied that he would not return. Pundit Mark Sullivan cruelly suggested that the President was saying to General Johnson: "Here's your hat. I'm sorry...
...public continued its "unreasonable attitude," Generalissimo Chiang summoned a secret conference of government leaders last week at his summer headquarters at Ruling in the Lushan Mountains. Up for discussion was, among other things, a new Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...