Word: macdonaldization
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...London this Havas dispatch so excited Prime Minister MacDonald that he called Premier Herriot on the trans-Channel telephone and begged him to retract...
...Scot MacDonald's excitement was due, of course, to his realization of the effect which the Havas dispatch would and did quickly produce on President Hoover and U. S. public opinion. Havas retracted not one word. M. Herriot obligingly declared that he had been "misunderstood," adding that he meant what he originally said but was referring not to the Accord de Confiance but to the gentleman's agreement. Two days later sword-handy Senator Henry Berenger, who negotiated the Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926) and is today Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...France nailed again & again to the mast her understanding that united Franco-British pressure will be brought to bear on the U. S. to cancel War Debts. The French attitude only hardened under President Hoover's blast against such pressure and under the following observation soon made by Scot MacDonald...
...hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number of 130. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's younger son, tooth-brush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald, came as the delegation's press contact...
London throngs cheered returning Scot MacDonald who went first to his oculist, second to Buckingham Palace for an audience of 70 minutes. Premier Herriot declared emphatically on reaching Paris: "In case the United States does not agree to debt reduction, France will remain in her previous position. That means that the entire reparations problem would have to be gone over again. That was the extent of our engagement at Lausanne...