Word: macdonaldization
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...Last week irrepressible Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again on her yacht, The Liberty once owned by not-quite-so-rich and eccentric Joseph Pulitzer. From The Liberty, on which Lady Houston lives with steam constantly up, blazes at her whim an electric sign DOWN WITH MACDONALD, THE TRAITOR...
Because she admires rich, pious Conservative Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett as much as she despises poor, pious Pacifist Prime Minister MacDonald, Lady Houston picked a likely horse last year, named him "R. B. Bennett" and had the satisfaction of seeing him win the North Derby at Newcastle. Last week in her large fore-cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review...
Apropos of the U. S.'s recently upped naval building program (TIME, July 10, et seq.) and before the British Admiralty retorted in kind (see col. 1), Lady Houston had written for her Saturday Review that Prime Minister MacDonald was "squandering millions on peace conferences" while he let the Empire's defense forces go to ruin. This was only to be expected, she slashed, from a man who, like Scot MacDonald, urged British munitions workers to strike during the War at a time when British soldiers at the front were short of shells. "How can you be secure...
...placard at the left of the stage reads: "Twinkletoes MacDonald will not appear this evening owing to sore feet...
...happy nations playing the fascinating game of arms control. Japan made herself very clear in avoiding any arrangement by which she would be hampered in her Eastern marauding; Hungary felt safe in following the lead of Mussolini in taking the position of an "interested observer" of the proceedings. MacDonald of England would, apparently, like to withdraw also but does not dare, the peace pressure being as strong as it is at home. This is a comforting thought, however, for it ensures that though the coterie of "interested observers" grows, there will at least be something left to observe...