Word: macdonaldization
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British Pledge. Premier MacDonald informed Premier Herriot that Britain would not evacuate the Cologne area, held since 1919, unless and until Germany had shown her good faith in discharging her obligations under the Experts' Plan...
When the Scotch say that a man has his plate full, they mean that his capacity is taxed to the limit. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister and His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, had his plate full last week...
...surrendering of confiscated British property, while the British were just as hostile to the Russians' keeping it. At no time was it admitted, however, by the British Foreign Office that all hope was lost, a fact which suggested a little Scotch stratagem on the part of Premier MacDonald to force the hands of the Russians...
...truth, at this juncture, Premier MacDonald took the job of negotiating with the Russians away from his coadjutor, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Ponsonby, and looked after the matter himself, with the result that an agreement was reached on the day following that of the breach...
Ramsay was for many years a close personal friend of the late Lord Morley (TIME, Oct. 1). Almost every Sunday that found MacDonald in "town" (London) also found him at Flowermead, Lord Morley's Wimbledon home. It is said that Ramsay acquired much of his political knowledge from "old John," as John Morley was known both before and after he accepted a Viscounty...