Word: macdonaldization
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...Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...Parliamentary tributes paid, last week, to the late Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, that of James Ramsay MacDonald was perhaps most moving. Speaking as a Laborite who had fought Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, Mr. MacDonald said: "He was the last of what Victorians meant by great parliamentarians-men of leisure and culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would...
Debate on the speech continued all week. It was flayed as "most meagre" by James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Opposition and onetime Prime Minister, who declared that Parliament was "in for a long holiday," since the Government had declined to deal with the critical problems of the coal and other vital industries...
Thus the problem is left even more than usually in the air, for Mr. MacDonald discards unreservedly "old" methods and "old" diplomacy. It would seem that all efforts at leagues, treaties, conferences, and agreements, gentlemanly or otherwise, in short at any of the adjustments commonly looked for, are bound to fall short of accomplishing their full purpose. For Europe is wily and America suspicious, and the situation becomes more acute...
...diplomacy. One might imagine, however, that this phenomenon if discovered, will probably be something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy till he gets...