Word: caked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indivisible whole," declared that to be workable it must be adopted in toto as drafted. Last week the declaration of a Morgan, a Young, a Schacht was simply sneered at by Laborite Snowden. In homely Yorkshire fashion he referred to the Young Plan as a "sponge cake" in need of being recarved. For Britain a bigger piece of sponge cake...
...frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size of their pieces of sponge cake. Since Britain wanted more?since she wanted some of their cake?there was battle royal. In four smashing rounds Battling Snowden led with logical lefts and sarcastic rights, followed with a walloping ultimatum. He stooped to rabbit-punch with personal insults in the clinches, and at last sent his opponents reeling...
...first and only conciliatory point the Yorkshireman said that there was nothing wrong with the size of the sponge cake, with the total fixed by the Young Plan for Germany to pay. That part of the plan he was ready to adopt. But he objected strenuously to: 1) the scaling down of the British Empire's share in German reparations to 18%, whereas under the Spa agreement of 1923 she was to get 22%; 2) the allotment to France, Belgium and Italy of nearly all the sums "unconditionally" pledged by Germany "in kind" (i.e., in commodities like coal...
Evidently the Briton in the street had pricked up ears at "sponge cake," grinned approval at the project of ending John Bull's "henpecked husbandhood." The most amazing tribute came from Quebec, where famed Conservative Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Chancellor Snowden at the Exchequer, was lecture-touring last week. Said he warmly: "I think Snowden is opposing the Young Plan not on personal or party grounds but solely as an Englishman who wants fair play...
...London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...