Word: macdonaldization
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Party Leader James Ramsay MacDonald exulted: "We have laid a broad foundation upon which the Party can stand, not merely during the election of next year, but through all the years to come until the aims of Socialism are fully achieved in Great Britain...
...platform is ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...Congress, pushing Leader MacDonald's theory to its logical conclusion soon formally resolved that if returned to power the Party will restore diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Lastly the Congress voted that all Communists shall be rigorously excluded from the Party...
...comic incident of the week was the inexplicable leaking out of an old, secret Scotland Yard "Report on the Activities of James Ramsay MacDonald from 1916 to 1921." In the expert opinion of detectives who prepared the report, "Mr. MacDonald is a Constitutional Socialist and by no means a Bolshevist...