Word: macdonaldization
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...second statement was a criticism of ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald's leadership. Mrs. Snowden inferred that it had been bad; she actually said he had taken too much upon himself. She made no excuses for him. Unfortunately, coming from the wife of the ex-Chancellor who was notoriously out of sorts with his Chief, such a statement provoked much criticism...
From London, The Morning Post, relentless enemy of ex-Premier MacDonald, immediately put the capital created by Mrs. Snowden at interest by writing an editorial...
...Ramsay MacDonald joined a group of "old students" of a workingmen's college at supper in London a few nights ago, and discussed with his sometime comrades the real meaning of education and the definition of the "educated man." Certainly, said this man who has sat in the seat of Gladstone, the educated man is not a "learned man." By this is meant that he is not necessarily educated because he is learned. Nor is he an educated man simply because he is a university man, added this son of a farm laborer who was thrilled last July when...
Such a man may be as learned as Aristotle, or he may, as Mr. MacDonald said, have difficulty in signing his own name. He may be back in the country somewhere, singing the old folksongs, or talking about his sheep and his dogs, or quoting Burns. This is defining education not in terms of "counts" and "credit" courses, of "majors" and "minors," nor in professional or other vocational achievements, but in simple spiritual and intellectual values. . . . . New York Times
...messages of Comrade Tchitcherin, two in number, deplored the British Government's action in abrogating the Russian Treaties, negotiated painfully by Premier MacDonald; it tacitly declined, however, to accept any responsibility for the "discontent" that the rejection will cause in Russia and Britain, stating that the Bolshevik Government "has displayed a maximum of good-will and concessions" in connection with the treaties...