Word: macdonaldization
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...House last week Scot MacDonald interrupted a bickering debate with this cry of despair: "What is the use! What is the use of members watching the clock go round and getting up to indulge in talk, talk, talk? It is bringing this House into contempt-this listless, lifeless talk, talk, talk...
Perhaps even the Great Man was taken in. Incredible as it may seem, Frau Stresemann went about telling her German friends confidentially (after the bummel) that there was a chance, a real chance that George V would call Sir Oswald to the prime ministry instead of Ramsay MacDonald...
Great Viceroy. Obviously Lord Irwin has drawn St. Gandhi very close to acceptance of the so-called "Reserved Dominion Status" which Scot MacDonald has offered India in lieu of absolute freedom (TIME, Jan. 26). Said the Nationalist (i. e., Gandhite) Hindustan Times, amazingly last week, "If Lord Irwin has earned an immortal place in the history of India, it is not only for showing himself a strong Viceroy, although even there he has had few rivals among his predecessors, but it is also for having shown an outstanding capacity for statesmanship and for having saved India for the Empire...
...Hoover Administration would have done, the MacDonald Government has decided to send a commission to Malta, and Lord Passfield assured Lord Strickland last week that this commission will very soon...
Answer: "Comrade and King both do as they are told [by Josef Stalin and Ramsay MacDonald, respectively] and the biggest job of each is to open Parliament...