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...nations," Christian Socialist Lansbury cried: "Britain is the greatest Imperialist power in the world. The call which Christ gave to the Rich Young Man to give up his riches is the same call which Britain should heed now!" Hoping to Heaven that peaceful Old George will resign, ambitious Herbert Morrison, the Cockney Labor boss of the London County Council who expects to be the next Labor Prime Minister, rushed about last week rousing his constituents with the platform cry: "Mussolini is an irresponsible fanatic with bloodthirsty tendencies. The people of Italy ought to overthrow...
...principal" by telephone. At 9 p. m. the Board ended the prolonged Sweitzer fantasy by first offering him a chance to resign, then ousting him by a vote of 14-10-0. Simultaneously Bob Sweitzer's doom was doubly sealed when local Democratic bigwigs meeting at the Morrison Hotel firmly decided to sacrifice one of their oldest and best votegetters on a pyre of his own I.O.U.'s to replace him with the publicly immaculate clerk of the Municipal Court...
...election, expected this year, was what worried the King's subjects last week. In nationwide municipal elections there has been a landslide to Labor, and since the old guard leaders of the Labor Party are now mostly venerable deadwood, their successor looms in pugnacious, able and popular Herbert Morrison, sometimes called "Prime Minister of London" since he and his Labor cohorts captured the London County Council (TIME, March...
...Bolshevik, Mr. Morrison is nevertheless sufficiently Socialist to put the final crimp in Britain's super-taxed leisure class, should he be returned as Prime Minister of a Labor Cabinet with a full working majority in the House of Commons- something British Labor has never...
...MORRISON...