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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
Laborites fiercely defended their Government in both Houses of Parliament last week, battling on four major Empire issues: Unemployment; Disarmament; Dominion Status for India; Resumption of Relations with Soviet Russia. Jabs were scathing, digs sharp and deep. But on the whole the debate was the most vital and constructive of a lackadaisical Parliamentary year...
Concluded Privy Seal Jim: "I have found no magic remedy for unemployment"-and it was all too evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the House voted a resolution enabling Mr. Thomas to go ahead with his plans. Sharpest criticism came from burly James Maxton, leader of the extreme Left Laborite faction. After flaying the Government for "compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some...
Conscious of his strong position, Scot MacDonald had delayed until last week his report to Parliament on the Hoover conversations. Taking his time and keeping most of his secrets, the Prime Minister told the House in substance only what he had already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet...