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...Steps Snowden. At heart all British Laborites are free traders, because they are all Socialists. Scot MacDonald's wavering toward an Empire tariff wall in recent weeks (TIME, Sept. 15) has merely reflected the fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial...
Greater grief had no nation last week than Britain. Not only the mother country but her children sorrowed. Every armory throughout the Dominions half-staffed its flag for the R-IOI (see p. 24). Bounding from his bed at news of the disaster, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hurried to the Air Ministry, remained there more than an hour as bulletin after bulletin added horror to the ghastly story. When it was certain that the Air Minister himself had perished, Mr. MacDonald said: "To me no one can now fill his place of genial companionship and friendship. Only those...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
Recognizing that the Earl belonged first to Law, Margaret Countess of Birkenhead and her children stood aside. "He was a truly wonderful man," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, often target of the Earl's most scathing shafts. "To disagree with Lord Birkenhead in no way diminished the extraordinary respect which one had to pay to his powers...
...intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned as Secretary of State for India some months before the Baldwin Cabinet's overthrow (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), excusing himself for quitting the sinking Conservative ship by brazenly asserting that his scale of luxurious living demanded more than a Cabinet Minister...