Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...MacDonald, however, was not a man to give up hope, and with brilliant statesmanship he was able to stem the tide of criticism with his accomplishment in other foreign fields. He brought Great Britain and France together, he put the Dawes plan into execution, and he was a moving power in the recent Geneva Conference which adopted the protocol of arbitration and international...
...height of the applause, comes a trivial issue and Parliament, which withstood the acid test of the Russian treaty, is dissolved by a drop of water. MacDonald modestly bows, acknowledges defeat, and hastens to blame the general election upon the Liberals; for all parties know that an election at the present time is distasteful to the people...
...Labor government in England is down; but in the words of that champion of the fallen. Evangeline Booth, not yet out. Premier Ramsay MacDonald is to seek dissolution of Parliament to carry his appeal for support over the heads of that body to the voters of the kingdom...
...Laborites have done most in bringing about a rapproachment with France. Premier MacDonald had no little share, through his overtures, in causing the fall of Poincare, ever whose dead body, politically speaking, Herriot and MacDonald conducted their countries to a new understanding. And from this new understanding, and made possible by it, sprang the London Conference, concerted action on the Dawes Report, and the united stand of England and France for the peace plans at Geneva...