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Bribe or Bait? Ostentatiously humdrum in style, the two sentences italicized above were in fact the sensational nub of the King-Emperor's speech: the Labor Party's speech. The first pledges Scot MacDonald to risk the very life of his Labor Cabinet by asking Parliament to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, which was passed to prevent a recurrence of Great Britain's paralyzing "General Strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24, 1926). It has generally been expected that the Liberal Party would side against the Labor Cabinet on this issue and thus produce the Cabinet...
...London on Nov. 12 the MacDonald Government is scheduled to sit down with potent, brunet gentlemen to the momentous Indian Round Table Conference (see p. 20). Sixty-nine million Indians are Moslems. Most of their leaders fiercely suspect that British Governments over a period of years have been in a sort of white-man's-plot with the 172,000 Palestine Jews against the 750,000 Palestine Arabs, religious brothers of India's Moslems. Only recently, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in London, did his fiery best to put the fear of Allah into Great Britain...
...medium-sized vermiform appendix (they vary from less than one inch to more than seven inches in length) was successfully removed in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week from Miss Joan Margaret MacDonald (second daughter). She, aged 22 and a fourth-year student of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, became engaged last month to a graduate medical student, Alastair MacKinnon, 23 (TIME, Sept...
Alister is the name of Scot MacDonald's elder son, 31, an architect (TIME, Jan. 16). The Prime Minister's third daughter is Sheila, 18, now a student at Oxford, a potent hockey player, addicted to tramping in bloomers...
Eldest of the three MacDonald daughters is of course, Ishbel, 27, Official Hostess. Younger son Malcolm, 29, is a Labor...