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Whereas all major New York papers gave "The European Union" from half a page to a page, the British Labor Party's Daily Herald played it down to less than half a column. Britons of all parties seemed uneasy lest a European bloc against Eng land emerge. Since Scot MacDonald is a Socialite on cordial terms with the Second (Socialist) International, he was placed in an awkward fix last week. For French, German and indeed all Socialist papers on the Continent hailed "The European Union" as a braingrandchild of the Internationale. (M. Briand. of course, is a Socialist...
While His Majesty's Government in India met crises which demanded news-suppression (see p. 28). Prime Minister MacDonald seemed content to voice this policy: "Wait for the Simon report...
Under the Official Secrets Act (see p. 28) the MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...
...What of it?" thought many an Englishman last week, as he read in the papers that the Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence...
...Gandhi were a newborn babe, if James Ramsay MacDonald were his proud father, St. Gandhi could not have been treated with more tender, solicitous care than was lavished by His Majesty's Government last week...