Word: macdonaldization
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...Labor is in danger of losing some of its strength in the coming English elections, while the Conservatives should gain," said Professor Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Professor of History in the University, in discussing the announcement of the overthrow of Premier MacDonald's government yesterday...
Were he elected, we should have a second Macdonald regimes a government controlled in large measure by Rolshevik Russia. None will deny that this would be most undesirable, if not fatal...
...threatened fall of the British Labor ministry has been postponed for a few days or a few months by the successful hurdling of the Irish bill to provide a commission to adjust the boundary between Ulster and the Free State. The Conservatives hoped to force the resignation of Premier MacDonald's government, and the overwhelming acceptance of this bill shows that the Irish question has at last been removed at least from the vicissitudes of partisan politics. Parliament has found a unified course, a fixed attitude which England will hold vis-a-vis with her new dominion...
...comes up in November. Mr. Asquith's stand against the proposed Russian treaty may force him to throw down the Labor government this week, but the evident Liberal weakness in the recent by elections may induce him to refrain from forcing a general election at present especially since Premier MacDonald would certainly place the issue before the electors...
Lastly, there is a fine moral issue. Britain is bound by promises given to the Sudanese people. Premier MacDonald recently said: "It must clearly be understood that Great Britain cannot throw off its responsibilities contracted to the Sudan and the Sudanese by withdrawing and handing the government of that country to any other government. . . . We must stand by the people of the Sudan; we have a moral obligation to them...