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...opening sessions of the conference were marked with much plain speaking from Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald. Old Tsarist Treaties were relegated to subcommittees for inspection, but no important decisions were or could be arrived at. Cessation of Bolshevik propaganda and recognition of debts and private property by the Soviet: Government were the chief items on the agenda...
Drafting Committee: The Committee consists of Owen D. Young (U. S.), Sir Josiah Stamp (Great Britain), M. Jean Parmentier (France), Andrew Mac Fadyean, General Secretary of the Reparations Commission...
When Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, wrote to the editor of the Youngstown Vindicator, he settled a controversy by spelling his name with a capital "D" after the "Mac." The Manchester Guardian had been the authority for spelling it with a small...
...less remarkable is the story of Mac Donald's struggle with his own party. Disavowed by all except a handful of his colleagues, he was content during the war to plough the lonely furrow. The coming of peace brought reconciliation but also new battles. For the next four years he was engaged in a struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been...
...written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with Mrs. Mac-Kaye, he has studied the natives, their strange language and customs and has already written five plays concerning these simple folk. The first (This Fine Pretty World), recently produced in Manhattan, met with high critical acclaim. Such is Percy MacKaye's career...