Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Right Hon. Stephen Walsh, 70, of Wigan, England, Secretary of War in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, longtime Laborite Member of Parliament; in Wigan...
...piquant bit of news concerning a potent Laborite M. P., soon perhaps to become a Cabinet Minister, who was knifed in his political back, last week, by his pretty daughter. He, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ramsay MacDonald Cabinet (1924) and has recently penned an able expose of War lies (TIME, Jan. 21). His faithless daughter. Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby, chirped last week, to a newswoman, "I'm going to vote for the Tories [Conservatives] just simply because I wouldn't like another Labor Government...
Recalling that Leader of the Labor Party James Ramsay MacDonald had favored the tunnel when he was Prime Minister (1924), Mr. Baldwin added, even more explicitly...
...course adopted by Mr. Ramsey MacDonald in 1924 should again com mend itself to him and to Mr. Lloyd George (Leader of the Liberal Party), I should like to obtain co-operation from the outset of the inquiry...
...principles into the Labor ranks. Through 1906-08 young Mr. Ponsonby served as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; but 1924 saw him Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs and right-hand-man to the only Laborite who has ever been British Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald. Thus, when onetime Page Ponsonby released his report in 192 closely packed and reasoned pages, he revealed the insight of one who has been behind the British scenes, both before and after the War, and the weighted judgment of a Parliamentarian 16 years in the House. Briefly, Laborite Ponsonby seeks...