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Studying the entire Cabinet, observers noted that every key post is held by an experienced, middle-of-the-road politician. Right and Left extremists have been excluded. In finance the new National Gov-ernment's line is clearly Protection in foreign affairs. In Indian affairs Scot Mac-Donald maintained the status quo (an Anglo-Indian deadlock) by appointing as Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, already British representative at the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference...
...settled out of court last week with Publisher Delacorte withdrawing My Story. Ostensibly, hostilities were over; but to make sure, Publisher Delacorte released Hullabaloo earlier than he had planned. (Afterward Publisher Macfadden denied that the name Hullabaloo was ever under consideration. Harold Hersey, who publishes three magazines for Mac fadden, revealed that he will bring out a 15^ humorous monthly next month...
Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
Joseph Wood Krutch defending Mac West in a recent issue of "The Nation" was the author of some extremely pertinent remarks concerning that simple-hearted lady, remarks which bear on certain aspects of American culture which cannot be emphasized too much. Mentioning the play, written and acted by Miss West, as sound though crude dramaturgy, he went on from the play to criticise the audience...
...income-bearing investments including municipal bonds were to be taxed 1%. As a "patriotic loan" the 5% Government War loan bonds were to be converted to 4% or 4½%. The total thus saved would be matched by an equivalent cut in Government salaries. There was another rumor. Scot Mac-Donald had an important conference with King George's assistant private secretary, Sir Clive Wigram. It was rumored that a cut in King George's privy purse allowance, which has remained at some $550,000 per year since 1910, was being considered.* Other reported cuts...