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...MacDonald Also Speaks...
After Atterbury, J. G. MacDonald, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, will speak on "The United States and the International Crisis." MacDonald has recently returned from Europe and has been active in United States affairs abroad...
...statement [on the results of the MacDonald-Roosevelt discussions in Washington] it was said that commercial policies needed a new orientation. I know who drafted that sentence. The Prime Minister drafted it. The Prime Minister, as a matter of fact, is very fond of high-sounding words and I am sure he was very well pleased with himself when he got that sonorous word 'orientation' into his statement. Orientation originally meant a moving toward the East, and I suggest the real meaning of the phrase was the necessity of dealing with Japanese commercial competition...
...Scot MacDonald made no rejoinder, flew north to enjoy a short vacation in the soothing air of Lossiemouth. He left to heavy-jowled Deputy Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the defense of their Government, which was suddenly attacked last week not only by the sharp-tongued Labor Peer but by a solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor...
...takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...