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Indications were not lacking that Premier Baldwin will resign after Parliament is opened on Jan. 8 and will advise the King to ask Ramsay MacDonald, Labor leader, to form a Ministry. Mr. MacDonald's policy is sure to be pro-German and anti-French-pro-German to the extent of actively assisting Germany to find her financial feet by peaceable methods; anti-French to the extent of opposing France's "continental policy." He will also be sure to accord immediate de jure recognition to Soviet Russia. Labor circles in London let it be known, however, that no immediate...
Oliver Baldwin, son of Premier Baldwin, Labor, attacked unsparingly his father's Government, but made it clear that he was in no way attacking his father. At one meeting which he addressed he was introduced with A. E. MacDonald as Comrade Oliver Baldwin, son of the present Prime Minister, while MacDonald was the son of the "future Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald." Oliver said the only thing the Government had done was to wrongfully arrest a number of people and then have to pay them compensation (TIME, May 19). "Talk about protection," he continued, "the only protection we want...
...Ramsey MacDonald spoke against Protection to the miners and reminded them that in the U. S. it had made massed capital more powerful than massed labor...
Parliament was opened and during its three-day session nothing of importance occurred, except the defeat of a vote of censure on the Government's domestic policy, moved by Ramsey MacDonald, the Laborite Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied...
...fascinating to speculate on the possibility of union between the Liberals and the Laborites. Macdonald as Prime Minister with Asquith a peer and on the Woolsack and Lloyd-George Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged to carry out the principle of a capital levy, has all the elements of romance and perhaps just a slender element of possibility. At any rate Mr. Lloyd-George is more concerned in attacking the Conservatives as a "scratch crew of third rate mariners whose sole qualification for their post is that they are also mutineers" than in maligning those who may soon be his bedfellows...