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Repeatedly Mr. MacDonald told correspondents last week that he expected shortly to announce complete agreement with Ambassador Dawes, but in Washington the Administration distinctly cooled, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson snappishly observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful...
Arbitration Advance. The most concrete passage in Scot MacDonald's idealistic speech dealt with the so-called "Optional Clause" of the World Court protocol, signatories to which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to announce that my Government has decided to sign the optional clause. [Prolonged cheers from statesmen of the minor nations, most of which have signed.] The form of our declaration is now being prepared." Later Prime Minister Aristide Briand said that France, which has adhered with reservations to the Optional Clause...
...Perish!" As he rose to his climax Socialist MacDonald launched on a theme seldom seriously dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...
...thing away comfortably out of mind. There are still Britons with that talent. Last week His Majesty's government decided to tuck away the fact of racial conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine (TIME, Aug. 26, et seq.]. The thing was attempted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the course of his great speech outlining policy (see p. 25). Said...
...Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show was Alford Joseph Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around the diamond-shaped course the six planes...