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...revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge d'Affaires Francis d'Arcy Godolperin Osborne carried to Secretary Stimson official invitations from Ramsay MacDonald as president of the Lausanne Conference and from Sir John Simon as British Foreign Minister to take part in the coming Conference. Neither date nor place was set. An explanatory letter from Charge d'Affaires Osborne agreed to all the original Stimson requirements. Reparations, debts, and specific tariff rates...
When the next train came in Premier Bennett again had to hasten down to the last car where he said, "How's your father?" to toothbrush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald...
...Express glib Jockey Beary told a tale of how he has been the secret intermediary between the British and Free State governments in recent weeks, claiming to have arranged President de Valera's original face-to-face meeting at No. 10 Downing Street with Premier James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
...Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State with His Majesty's Government in Great Britain passed from ominous threats to ominous action last week. At 6 p. m. the King-Emperor gave royal assent to a bill passed by his Lords & Commons empowering the MacDonald Government to levy an import tax up to 100% on Free State products entering Great Britain. One hour later the Government, acting with wrathful zeal (because President Eamon de Valera had said "They're only bluffing!"), issued an order in council placing a 20% tax on virtually all Free State imports...
...course the Free State did not declare its independence next day. Instead President de Valera consented to meet Prime Minister MacDonald again face to face, traveling for this purpose to London last week, as he did last month before Scot MacDonald left for Lausanne (TIME, June 20). Again they flatly disagreed, an event which so upset old George Lansbury, leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Commons, that he cried: "I call upon the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene! . . . We have started a fight with Ireland the end of which...