Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampstead, Ramsay MacDonald considered himself already in power, spent the weekend picking a tentative Cabinet. Puffing happily on a cigar, his first smoke since he began campaigning early last month, he said: "The results are magnificent, but not surprising. The government has lost the confidence of the country and Labor...
...laboring people ever live in such an inspiring moment as this? When you read the figures this morning you saw the Labor polls were above the Conservative polls, and twice the Liberal polls. Did you ever think you would live to see that? Honestly...
Promises. Political observers re-examined the platform of the Labor party to see what might be expected if and when another MacDonald government runs Britain. The Labor party had advocated...
Reactions. Abroad, the news of Labor's victory was warmly received. In Washington, Naval officials pointed out that even though the Labor party had no clear majority, the diehard, nationalistic Tory group was definitely defeated. On receipt of the news President Hoover began planning to call another international conference on naval reductions...
Germany too was cheered at the prospect of a Labor government in Britain. All of the more liberal aspects of Britain's foreign policy were inaugurated by the last MacDonald administration. German optimists foresaw speedy evacuation of the Rhineland, quick ratification of the Young Plan...