Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sails from Quebec for England. Oct. 25-27-French Radical-Socialist party meets at Rheims. Party presidential candidate: Edouard Herriot. Oct. 28-Nov. 9-Institute of Pacific Relations meets at Kyoto. Oct. 29-British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30-General election in Ontario, Canada. Nov. 5-In England, Guy Fawkes' Day national celebration with fireworks and bonfires in commemoration of Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" (1604). Nov. 9-Prince of Wales presides at dinner for all wearers of England's Victoria Cross (highest military decoration). Nov. 9-Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord...
Teetering on a dilemma was British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald last week. He had been persuaded to address the American Federation of Labor's convention at Toronto. Militant crusader for his Labor party, he faced the militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal balance. Said he: "In Great Britain I am a party man, unashamed of it, glorying in it, but here today . . . I represent the whole nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about...
Stumpers. There was no agreement last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving...
...crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain and the Dominions] nothing else can take its place." He asked their cooperation in getting more Canadian orders for British factories according to the plan recently outlined on a whirlwind tour of the Dominion by big, blarneying British Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Jim") Thomas (TIME, Sept. 2). Ottawa. The quiet city dubbed Canada's capital by Queen Victoria is one-fifth as populous as bustling, industrial Toronto...
...main address Orator MacDonald touched on a novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I say you I mean Canada. . . . We have done the same, France has done the same, Italy has done the same and the United States has done the same! ... If there is to be no war there is to be no blockade. What is the use of bothering ourselves and wasting our time...