Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover at once halted construction of three U. S. cruisers, prepared to investigate, through another commission, the high cost of the army (see p. 12), promised a hearty welcome to Premier Ramsay MacDonald whenever he comes...
Navy. The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War was hardly four hours old before the Navy began to feel its influence. Responsive (by prearrangement) to Premier MacDonald's announcement of a reduction in the British naval building program, of British acceptance of thoroughgoing naval parity with the U. S., President Hoover moved to retard the construction of three 10,000-ton cruisers. He publicly explained: cruisers henceforth are not to compete in armament as potential opponents but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. . . . Generally speaking the British cruiser strength considerably exceeds the American strength...
Politicians were less interested in the subject of the vote than its effect. It was the first time that the Liberals, who voted with the Government, had voted unanimously since the War. Experts prophesied a much longer Labor reign than the two years Premier MacDonald had asked...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain's impotent minority Labor Government, reopened diplomatic relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Within a few months the Labor Government was defeated on its Russian policy, a general election was called. At the height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev...
Members of Parliament were incensed at the Bishops' action. Laborite Holford George Wilfrid Knight promised to take up the matter at once with Prime Minister MacDonald, to make the Bishops "set an example to the nation of obedience to law and respect for the sanctity of a contract...