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Such thoughts as these were doubtless uppermost in the minds of the 21 statesmen who trooped into the British Foreign Office and grouped themselves around a horseshoe table on a memorable July morning. Premier MacDonald took his seat in the centre, around him were grouped three other British delegates; to the right of Mr. MacDonald sat Premier Herriot of France and his men; to the left of the British Premier were U. S. Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg and Colonel James A. Logan Jr., U. S. Observer with the Reparations Commission. At the ends of the table were seated the representatives...
Premier Herriot then proposed Premier MacDonald as President of the Conference. The motion was seconded by Premier Theunis of Belgium and carried unanimously. After this protracted exchange of banalities, the Conference settled down to work. The result of the first morning's session was the establishment of three committees...
Unemployment Discussing the gentle inactivity of Labor,* the Post journalist says that unemployment is likely to be "the Nemesis of the new order." Mr. MacDonald won many seats in the last election and was allowed to reside at No. 10 Downing Street because oi his promised panacea for the vexatious unemployment riddle. He said: "I object to the unemployed being fooled any longer. . . . The Labor Party alone has a positive remedy for unemployment. . . . We.will take office because in dealing with unemployment we believe we have a program and a power that no other party possesses...
...will constitute a permanent hangover for various of the horny-handed who have mounted to ministerial and other eminence. It is summed up in the sentence−Life will never be the same again. I must except a man of the type of Ramsay MacDonald, who brought a real cultural background to the post of Premier...
...addition to the much-discussed French Moderns, there are two other interesting exhibitions current in London: Frank Brangwyn at Burlington House, and Paul Gauguin at the Leicester Galleries. The Brangwyn exhibition also was opened by Prime Minister MacDonald. Many of the canvases were loaned by the late Prince Matsukata of Tokio...