Word: macdonaldization
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...Reed, a delegate to the London Conference who had seen the secret papers, had said their production would help the Treaty but would also stir up "personal animosities and ill-will." This led to a generally accepted Senate surmise that in the documents exchanged between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald, the President had remarked with cutting candor upon the personal and political peculiarities of the very people now opposing the Treaty, had discussed Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest if now made public. Conceivably the President...
...Scot MacDonald told the House that after thorough examination by his Channel Tunnel Committee (TIME, March 24) the Cabinet has finally decided not to build one, although this project has been urged and argued in and out of season for more than 50 years. Reason: fear. The English are still afraid that a sneaking French Army might creep among them in the night. Said Le Matin of Paris, last week, in a jocular editorial: "If the British do not want us to pass under the Channel, we will fly over...
...Backing up Scot MacDonald (282 to 201) in his signing of the London Naval Treaty, the House defeated a Conservative motion to "investigate," urged by Winston Churchill who shouted: "Never since the reign of Charles II has this country been so defenseless...
...trenchant defense of the Treaty, Scot MacDonald said: "It is our position that mere armaments will not give security. . . . Limitation by treaty is necessary. . . . Those who so much regret that the London Conference reached only a three-and not a five-power agreement should recall that only three powers attended the Geneva conference...
...presidents, save Herbert Hoover and Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, June 11, 1928), have flown. European heads-of-state are less wary. Frequent flyers among them: King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians; Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald; the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince George; King Carol of Rumania, King Alfonso of Spain, Prime Minister Tardieu, Benito Mussolini...