Word: macdonaldization
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...France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...
...entered St. James's Palace last week with English, French and Japanese colleagues, confronted Males MacDonald and Stimson...
Prime Minister MacDonald who was busily sorting papers, hastily slammed his briefcase shut, listened attentively...
Quietly but momentously the Lords had defied the Commons. So grave was the situation that a hasty night session of the Cabinet was called by Scot MacDonald and a pair of exciting rumors flew: first that the Prime Minister, like Asquith in 1911, would bring the Lords to heel by threatening to advise the King* to create enough new peers to override the votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure...
...credit Scot MacDonald resisted temptation, conferred as to means of com promise during half the night with snowy-headed Charles Alfred Cripps, onetime vicar, ist Baron Parmoor, and leader of the 14 Labor Peers who, absurdly enough, represent the largest British political party in the House of Lords...