Word: macdonaldization
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Like a mouse squeaking at an elephant, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley last week gave Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald his worst scare of the year, caused the unstably balanced Labor Cabinet to wobble, totter...
...matter bluntly, Mr. MacDonald and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden have been driven by overpowering political forces?perhaps by British public opinion itself?almost to abandon their first love: Socialism...
...been called to advise the Government about unemployment relief. He had drafted a thoroughly Socialist plan?"the Mosley memorandum"?but, at a meeting presided over by Mr. Snowden, the Cabinet had turned this down. As dramatically as possible Sir Oswald proclaimed that this proved that Scot MacDonald would never adopt the true, the right, the Socialist course, the course which the Labor Party (technically Socialist) had a right to demand. Therefore, he had resigned. Whatever the future might hold he and the true Socialists of the party would stand together on giving 25 shillings a week to all workers...
...Private Party." As sometimes happens, the mouse's squeak stampeded the elephants. Mr. MacDonald was reported to have offered Sir Oswald the Ministry of Mines to shut him up, but he and Lady Mosley only opened wider...
...future lay largely in a debate posted for the following week, on the politically relevant, but imperially trivial matter of reducing Mr. J. H. Thomas' salary. But the question made Premier MacDonald queazy. Two former premiers were to heckle him?Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance...