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Charges made against the President: 1) he held up naval building before the London Conference, "a gesture not commensurately copied by other prospective participants" in the parley; 2) he "admittedly" reached agreements with Prime Minister MacDonald on the Rapidan "that have never officially been divulged in their entirety"; 3) his delegates at London "yielded to the British what President Coolidge had refused to yield to them at Geneva in 1927" (i. e. big cruisers for small ones); 4) he refused to let the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in executive session see the full record of his negotiations on the London...
Jack, who planted the beanstalk, was surprised when it sprouted high as Heaven. But he made a good thing of it, climbed up and worsted the Giant. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald, who planted his National Government in the doubtful soil of a General Election (TIME, Nov. 2, et ante), was simply astounded. "We appealed for a demonstration of national unity," he said. "The response has been far beyond the dreams of the most enthusiastic...
...sprouted before. Century ago in the reign of King William IV there was something remotely like it. In 1831 the Second Earl Grey, Prime Minister, returned to Parliament with 370 Whig seats, the record party victory for all time until 1931. Last week the National Government of James Ramsay MacDonald returned supported by 476 Conservatives, 66 National Liberals, 13 National Laborites (including the Prime Minister) and 2 Independents. Total: the National Government holds the prodigious total of 557 seats in a House! of Commons of 615. Such miracles used to happen only in the tales of Mother Goose...
...British law, no rule of Parliament bound Stanley Baldwin, party leader of 476 Conservative M. P.'s, to continue his support of Scot MacDonald, party leader of 13 National Laborites...
Stupidest move of the MacDonald campaign were the arrangements for his speech at Seaham colliery. If Schoolmaster Coxon had still been the Prime Minister's campaign manager instead of his opponent he never would have allowed Scot MacDonald to make a speech the very day that unemployed miners were drawing their reduced dole. He never would have chosen as a meeting place the same hall that had just been used as a dole pay office. Black-faced miners drew their pittances and cursed while unconscious campaign workers tacked MacDonald posters up under their noses. Fortunately there was no rioting...