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Scene: the turbulent British Labor Party Annual Conference, meeting last week at Llandudno, Wales, most delegates fighting mad because so many men are out of work...
...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
Inconsistent Ramsay. The Prime Minister dashed from the Imperial Conference at London to speak at Llandudno last week, won a vote of confidence on government policy. His speech was amazing. In some passages Mr. MacDonald flayed the very notion of putting a tariff wall around the Empire, called all tariffs "quack remedies"; but soon he was threatening reprisals?apparently tariff reprisals ?against nations which should raise their tariffs against Empire goods...
...Scotch employers since the War have turned many a braw Sandy and honest Wully to Communism. Scotland's shipyards on the Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...
Recent reports of unrecorded sea-monsters are more common than one would suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made...