Word: macdonaldization
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...Recognized with unerring British Parliamentary instinct that Prime Minister MacDonald's declaration winding up the Second Indian Round Table Conference with vague, conciliatory talk of a Third Conference and greater freedom for India, was in fact a move to keep restive India quiet and hitched to the chariot of Empire as long as possible...
Sensing that Scot MacDonald's "weak" policy is really "strong," the House decisively rejected 369 to 43 last week a die-hard proposal by Winston Churchill specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
Although James Ramsay MacDonald was born Oct. 12 the Scots Club had to wait until last week to celebrate his 65th birthday. In London 700 Scots & guests received the Prime Minister's apologies for having been too busy last Oct. 12 with the General Election to banquet with them then. When all present had been mellowed by Scotch toasts, Mr. MacDonald scratched his silver head, tried to conjure up "some of my childhood memories...
...most vivid childhood memory" Scot MacDonald conjured thus: "It is very hard on a frosty morning. We have to get up while it is still dark, and we trudge a mile or two along a frost-bitten dirt road...
...future Prime Minister was born to Miss Anne Ramsay. Patient investigators can still see the birth certificate attesting him a bastard in the Parish Registry at Drainie. In signing the certificate Miss Ramsay termed herself a "domestic servant," called her son "James MacDonald Ramsay." Later the boy was called James Ramsay MacDonald. Today the British Who's Who explains that his father was "J. MacDonald...