Word: macdonaldization
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...Government to enforce upon Britons ?a treaty signed by George V.* It is considered especially nice?a sort of beau geste toward His Majesty?if the enabling act passes its second and third (final) readings not by formal votes but by acclaim. To win this acclaim James Ramsay MacDonald and leading Labor orators sweated last week and swinked...
...Pacifist Party!" The act had passed first reading by a comfortable majority. But now came a Labor surprise attack from one of Scot MacDonald's own henchmen, ebullient Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy...
...Threw out a Conservative motion censuring the Labor Party's free trade policy by a vote of 312 to 241, the largest majority Mr. MacDonald has received in recent weeks...
...Armed Force!" In the British House of Commons, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald was baited on the Egyptian situation by a member of his own party, Ernest Thurtle, M.P. Inquired this Laborite with asperity...
Here was the issue, squarely put, but Mr. MacDonald adroitly avoided it. To be sure the British battleships Queen Elizabeth and Ratnillies (mounting between them 16 fifteen-inch guns) were already racing for Alexandria from cruising spots in the Aegean Sea. But Mr. MacDonald said that "His Majesty's Government is determined not to inter- vene in the purely internal affairs of Egypt," and all present understood what he meant. For minutes after this popular announcement the House of Commons rang with cheers...