Word: ramsay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hangs in fact by a thread, and may fall after the Christmas recess perhaps during the Five Power Naval Conference, was evident last week when the bill to reorganize Britain's pitifully depressed coal industry (TIME, Oct. 28) came up for its second reading. In no sense Communist or Radical, the bill epitomizes Scot MacDonald's own brand of "safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board...
...gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...
...Placed the Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
...policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else, try to say what President Hoover has said, statistics carefully cooked...
When he had drained the toast. James Ramsay MacDonald said...