Word: macdonaldization
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...Mussolini who said, "Treaties are not eternal." And it was MacDonald who went the next logical step and declared that if there must be revision, it is better that it come through peaceful, diplomatic channels, than by a war which might involve all Europe. Put these two statements together, and there follows the proposal for a conference among the Big Four of Europe to decide on Treaty Revision. But France and her Allies have come out fiatly against such a conference. Last Tuesday, Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia, and the brains behind the Little Entente, declared that the frontiers could...
...will surely come eventually, if it is not already existent in fact. They oppose German equality; yet no nation as strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
Aboard the westward steaming newly decorated Berengaria, Britain's idealistic James Ramsay MacDonald was quite shocked out of the philosophical calm with which he has inured himself to crises. Nearly a thousand miles behind him another Socialist, the chunky Mayor of Lyons. Edouard Herriot, was aboard the He de France. When the radioman brought him the news, one of his party exclaimed: "We might as well turn around and go back home." The newly decorated lie de France sailed...
...Rowe '27, coach of the team, announced last night that the judges would be R. B. Eastman, Boston banker, W. A. Macdonald, special editor of the Boston Transcript, and A. L. Moore, Cambridge lawyer, with P. C. Reardon '32, as chairman. Reardon, a former president of the Debating Council and winner of the Coolidge Prize two years ago, will announce this year's recipient of the prize at the meeting tonight...
Maisky. While these fireworks sizzled in Moscow, diplomatic spade work went on in London. Soviet Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia...