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Plainly the two statesmen were on each other's nerves. The Count's visit to England is reputedly to convince James Ramsay MacDonald that the legitimate heir to the throne of Hungary, famed Archduke Otto ("Little Otto") of Habsburg must and should be restored when he reaches his majority next...
...debate was Miss Ethel Bentham (Laborite). After less than two hours' recess, the House convened again as the Committee of Supply, voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce the Conservatives into this conference, and to label unemployment before the House...
...Selfish Government." Aside from the fact that Bombay police bruised and bashed some 500 non-violent Gandhites, the week in India was unexciting. Approached in his jail near Poona by an emissary of James Ramsay MacDonald with terms of compromise, St. Gandhi cocked his bird-like head and listened. Rejecting the terms (secret) he denounced "the selfishness of the British Government," demanded as the first and minimum price of peace complete self-rule for India...
Informed by a Daily Mail reporter in London that he had been called an "Erasdan," Baron Strickland (who hurried to England a fortnight ago to consult with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald) appeared grossly insulted. Being a Catholic himself, he knows what it means to be called an "Erastian...
Popular Prestes. Not since the visit of Ramsay MacDonald & Daughter Ishbel has socialite Washington been so favorably impressed as it was by Julio Prestes & Son Fernando. With affable dignity they ably represented the 20 United States of Brazil, almost as populous as the islands of which Mr. MacDonald is Prime Minister, and 258,530 sq. mi. larger than the 48 states of which Mr. Hoover is President...