Word: macdonaldization
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Certain objections to the Treaties were made by the Opposition, headed by former Premiers Ramsay Macdonald and David Lloyd George, although both prefaced his speech by an endorsement of the Treaties as a whole. Objections and answers...
...Macdonald: Why were the Locarno Treaties consummated without consulting the Dominions? . . . I cannot conceive of so insular a system of conducting the imperial foreign policy as other than calamitous...
...Macdonald: "Was it the idea of Locarno to detach Germany from any co-operation with Russia and set up a League bloc of states against Russia...
...hard supporters of a high tariff, and the election has been fought with the tariff as a distinctly major issue. Thus it appeared that Mackenzie King, by allying himself with the Progressives, might well continue as Premier with a "minority Government," as did Britain's only Labor Premier, Macdonald. Thus it was that Premier King, although "defeated," refused to resign. He announced that he would "discuss the situation with the Governor-General, Lord Byng, and then make a statement" of his intentions...
...before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...