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PRIME MINISTER, FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY? and SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, James Ramsay Macdonald, Laborite (for personal details see under...
...Seals. On the following morning Premier Baldwin and his Ministers went to Buckingham Palace to deliver to the King in Privy Council the Seals of State. Exit ex-Premier Baldwin and ex-Ministers of State. Enter Mr. Macdonald and his Cabinet to receive the Seals and be sworn members of His Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council. Exit Premier Macdonald and the Labor Ministers. (Now the Labor Ministry is legally constituted...
...became a political nonentity in 1918 and did not regain his seat in the House until the 1922 elections when he became Chairman of the Parliamentary Labor Party and Leader of His Majesty's Opposition. Now he is Prime Minister, nearer Conservatism than Radicalism, such is the metamorphosis of Macdonald. The Times of London, says he is one of the most noteworthy of British Prime Ministers?an idealist and a pacifist guiding the country when idealism and pacifism are not the ruling passion of the world. Henry William Massingham, famed Liberal editor of London, summed up Macdonald thus: "Not eloquent...
Russia. One of the first acts of Premier Macdonald was to give effect to his policy of ending "the pompous policy of standing aloof from Russia." James O'Grady, Labor M. P., was offered and accepted the post of British Ambassador to Russia. Official recognition of Russia, however, was held in abeyance pending agreement on the conditions of such recognition of the British Government and the acceptance by both Governments of each other's ambassadorial candidates...
India. To the forces of non-cooperation and other parties of a turbulent revolutionary nature in India, the advent of Laborism in Britain was looked forward to with undisguised enthusiasm. The letter which Mr. Macdonald sent to India three weeks before he became Premier and which he has recently had published did nothing to reassure them. The letter said revolutionary movements which break contact with the past invariably have to pick them up again. "I can see no hope in India," he said, "if it becomes the arena of a struggle between constitutionalism, and revolution. No party in Great Britain...