Word: macdonaldization
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...comes his day, and in Rome last week to Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, quick and smart as any trained poodle, came a day indeed. For a whole year Minister Grandi has been striving mightily to find a way in which Italy and France might adhere to the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Pact-with honor...
...Arabs last week it was quite as clear that Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is a perfidious Scotchman because, in his recent note to the Zionists (TIME, Feb. 23), he interprets the Passfield Declaration in such a way as to start Jews again toward Palestine...
...observe that His Majesty's Government is subject continually to unjustified vacillation. ... I assure your Excellency that Premier MacDonald . . . has ruined hope of a policy of co-operation between Arabs and Jews, if there existed such a hope, and has rendered the possibility of understanding between the two parties absolutely impossible. ... He has not attached more value to [the Passfield Declaration] than to 'a scrap of paper...
...rushing to defend Scot MacDonald against the charge of deliberate perfidy his friends stubbed their toes upon these points: 1) the Passfield Declaration was issued just before the Indian Round Table Conference with its immense Mohammedan contingent convened in London (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.); 2) so long as the Conference sat, not all the Jews in Christendom could move Mr. MacDonald by their incessant pleas, threats, demands; 3) so soon as the Indian Conference adjourned and its Mohammedan members returned to India and reported favorably, just so soon did Scot MacDonald yield to the Jews...
...cablegram to the London Daily Herald, St. Gandhi as much as said last-week that he would not accept the Indian Conference-Ramsay MacDonald scheme for "Reserved Dominion Status" under which India's defenses and finances would be under British control...