Word: macdonaldization
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Such as it was however, the agreement was signed. As Chairman of the Economic Conference white-crested James Ramsay MacDonald sent invitations, to the other 58 nations invited to the conference to sign the tariff truce...
...happy. For ten years, 1915-25, he directed the Tribune's foreign bureaus from headquarters in London. He covered the War, the Peace, the Fascist march on Rome. He adopted and has retained the attitude and habits of an English gentleman. His neighbor and good friend was Ramsay MacDonald...
...Washington in July to sign. What commodities would be involved in a swap between the two countries had yet to be developed by experts. Meanwhile the diplomatic sunshine generated by the White House conversations was intermittently dulled by passing clouds following the return last week of James Ramsay MacDonald to London and Edouard Hcrriot to Paris. Mr. MacDonald's carefully guarded report to the House of Commons on his Washington excursion produced vociferous dissatisfaction. He had failed to bring back a hard & fast plan for cutting War debts: that was all that seemed to matter at the moment...
...hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Geneva. To the interminable arguments of the League's Disarmament Conference came white-haired Mr. Davis with an important statement. Announcing U. S. approval of the MacDonald Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27),* he added: "Part one of the British plan is designed to co-ordinate the efforts of members and non-members of the League of Nations to promote an established peace through consultation and methodical co-operation when peace may be threatened or broken. . . . My Government...
...redeem at 150. France therefore gets the money she needs from Britain, and at nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason for the loan is the belief of every Frenchman that whatever may or may not come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington, U. S. isolation as a world power is defi- nitely over. What this might mean for France they could not yet tell, but threats of further U. S. inflation had every French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would...