Word: macdonaldization
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Always addicted to general terms, Mr. MacDonald paralleled the Hoover-Stimson specific proposal for "Optional Duplications" with these words...
...MacDonald: "The present British building program of destroyers is for 200,000 tons ultimately, but this can be reduced if the submarine programs of other Powers are reduced...
...MacDonald: "The Government proposes the abolition of submarines. Its experts feel that the argument that the submarine is an arm solely of defense was destroyed by the experience of the late war and that in war conditions it is an arm of attack. If abolition cannot be agreed upon, the British government will put forward proposals limiting submarines rigidly to the defense requirements...
Flushed by his first victory, driving, kinetic M. Tardieu then presented the conference with his plan of procedure. When this had been haggled over and slightly modified, James Ramsay MacDonald said poetically to reporters: "The partition between our position and the French is now so thin that if you should place a candle on one side you could see it from the other...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...