Word: macdonaldization
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...week. Prime Minister Tardieu, absent a month, was returning to the Naval Conference for the weekend. Every member of the French delegation was on the platform ; Britain's first Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander rushed away from a football game at the Oval to extend felicitations. Ramsay MacDonald sent a messenger to remind M. Tardieu to be sure to motor out to Chequers for Sunday lunch. U. S. and Japanese assistant secretaries beamed a welcome. At the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of the French delegation, doors banged frantically for hours as technicians and diplomats rushed in and out. About...
...last chance of any effective agreement at the London Naval Conference as distinguished from face-saving formulas largely depends on the outcome of conversations at Chequers today between Prime Minister MacDonald, Prime Minister Tardieu and Secretary Stimson. If today's discussions promise no change in the French thesis there will be no hope of adjustment...
...second month of the Naval Conference drew toward a close, last week, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced that it had safely passed through what he called the "first stage," the stage in which "confidence" must be established among the delegations and was now entering the second stage "when on account of the established confidence we can discuss actual program." So well pleased with such progress was Mr. MacDonald that he cried: "If I talk with a feeling of buoyancy, I have very good reasons...
...token coins of optimism. Meanwhile the U.S. Congress voted $150,000 to sustain the U.S. delegation at London's Ritz Hotel, when advised by the President that their original appropriation of $200,000 has been spent. Conservative estimates placed the cost to the five powers of achieving what Mr. MacDonald called "Confidence" at roughly $1,000,000, or a trifle over $14 per minute night and day since the conference assembled (TIME...
...delegation let newsmen know that this French demand for "security" may be met, if a way can possibly be found to do so without dragging the U.S. into an "entangling alliance." Even two weeks ago the U.S. attitude was, on the contrary, that France must yield. Mr. MacDonald told U.S. radio listeners last week that "some of us will strive to secure as an essential part of the [London] agreement a pledge of goodwill and pacific intentions...