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Retorted the mine owners: "The Prime Minister's speech contains statements that would be astonishing indeed were not allowance made for the fact that Mr. MacDonald sits in Parliament for a mining constituency...
Thus squelched. Old Mother MacDonald made feeble rebuttal: "I intended to be helpful...
...consequence of this act may well alter the entire course of Anglo-Indian history. In effect Lord Reading pledged the Liberal Party to stand and vote with the Labor Party in extending to India that large measure of self-government under the Crown which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald has long been eager to grant. Standing together, Laborites and Liberals could, of course, outvote the Conservatives in the House of Commons, could cut the Gordian knot of India-wisely or unwisely...
Conservative Counterblast. The die-hard British Conservatives, led by famed Winston Churchill, privately consider all schemes for granting any kind of dominion status to India treasonable. In the U. S. last week Mr. Churchill's hotheaded, loose-lipped, lecture-touring son publicly called Scot MacDonald "a traitor to his country...
Significance. Lord Reading's about-face produced a profound-effect in India last week, led to general expressions of hope that a new Indian Constitution drafted by the Conference will be adopted by the British Parliament, focused world attention on James Ramsay MacDonald. He announced that before this month is out he will publicly outline the future policy of the British Government with respect to India...