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Goaded, Scot MacDonald made his most important public statement in recent months. He revealed that the Labor Cabinet, dominated by Free-Trader Philip Snowden, has decided to refuse the dominion prime ministers' demand that Great Britain lay a tariff on non-Empire foodstuffs, such a tariff being intended to result in larger purchases of foodstuffs by the Mother Country from her dominions. Briefly, momentously the Prime Minister said...
...beginning of last week there were three live leaders of Chicago gangland -Big Shots, in gangster parlance. They were Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, whose dominion reaches out from the South Side of the city, and his two long standing enemies, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran, both of the North Side. For weeks all three had kept public and police (who sought them on vagrancy charges) guessing as to their whereabouts. Suddenly two of them appeared, very much in the public...
...only this scheme were feasible it might solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...
...Every dominion delegate has said that his first interest was his 'own people.' They say, 'We first and the Empire second.' In sporting terms they hope the rest will be among the also rans. Well, that's our position too! I say on behalf of the British Government that our first thought must be for our own people...
...Dominion Demands. There was much more in the Empire hen house last week than angry clucking. Abruptly in a single day all the Dominions, led by Canada, asked Great Britain to scrap her traditional, her immemorial policy of Free Trade...