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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Since India is no Dominion, the person of her Viceroy, most important British administrative post, is not for her to choose but for the British Prime Minister to suggest. Labor politicians demanded that James Ramsay MacDonald pick a Labor peer for the post. He suggested Laborite Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell, president (1920-22) of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Under-Secretary of State for Air (1921-22), author of Love Triumphant, and Other Poems. This met with such violent Conservative, Liberal, and even Indian opposition on the basis of Lord Gorell's "inexperience," that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Curling Viceroy | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...appointment acceptable to almost everybody. Acceptable to the Laborites because he is a known champion of racial equality in India, because as Governor of Bombay and of Madras he earned the title of "most easy-going of Governors," because the first MacDonald Government gave him his viscountcy in 1924. He is acceptable to the Liberals because he is a Liberal, has been a party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Curling Viceroy | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...Baldwin, wife of the Conservative Party's leader. In her Stanley's rise to the Prime Ministry (1923-24; 1924-29) she observed "the hand of Divine Providence." If David Lloyd George would switch his Liberal Party into coalition with the Conservatives instead of supporting Laborite Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. Baldwin might become Prime Minister again tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Villain! | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...MacDonald Government had not even yet disavowed the term "humbug," but Prime Minister Bennett with appropriate forbearance shook Mr. Thomas' hand at parting with a tight little smile. As the train chuffed out, Jim fairly carolled to correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Humbug Between Friends | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...precluded by the laws of my country and by my duty to the them." Crown from all hostile action against The period of Mr. Churchill's "hostile action" would thus be from the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1917 up to its recognition by the first MacDonald Government in 1924. But it might also include the period from 1927 (when Anglo-Soviet relations were broken off by the Baldwin Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cold, Reptilian Blood | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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