Word: macdonaldization
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Plainly and obviously the distribution of these honors was a move by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to regain the Jewish favor he lost at the time of the Palestine crisis (TIME, Nov. 3). Anxious, too, about Arab goodwill in Palestine, Mr. MacDonald "advised" (i. e. caused) His Majesty to knight Zahda Haddad, Arab Medical Officer at Haifa...
Only British M. P. to be knighted was sturdy Ben Turner, staunch Labor henchman of the Prime Minister, onetime weaver, now textile union head. In general the Honors List reflected Scot MacDonald's disapproval of the peerage-no new peer was created...
Seven columns wide the mammoth headline WILL GERMANY GO BANKRUPT stared London in the face one day last week. It spread across the entire front page of the MacDonald Government's party organ the Daily Herald. Paradoxically this super-scarehead was a friendly gesture. Silver-haired, silver-tongued Scot MacDonald was welcoming that day the first German Chancellor to set foot in England since the War: Dr. Heinrich Brüning, a young clean shaven statesman of but 46, a Catholic of stern fiber who won the Iron Cross fighting für Kaiser und für Vaterland...
...ning came to London last week for the express purpose of persuading World public opinion that Germany faces bankruptcy and revolution unless her Reparations burden is reduced. Mr. MacDonald seemed ready to help-the British attitude being that such reduction is entirely up to the U. S. Under the friendly headline WILL GERMANY GO BANKRUPT Scot MacDonald's hospitable Herald said...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...