Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switched back to Colonies, Secretary MacDonald became fascinated by the black, brown, yellow peoples of the British Empire. With relish he discovered that the Empire's cannibals preferred black men instead of white. The whites tasted too salty. All the while he was gaining his superiors' confidence. Gloomily he expressed the fear that the British Empire might disintegrate before the onrush of "extreme nationalism." Prime Minister Chamberlain called that a "very brilliant and statesmanlike exposition...
Fortnight ago, after many warnings, Malcolm MacDonald finally announced his and the Government's decision to stake out Palestine into: 1) a prohibited zone, where Jews could no longer buy land; - For a similar example of self-denial...
...Labor Party attacked the bill, introduced in the House of Commons a motion of censure. And last week Colonial Secretary MacDonald faced at long last his political trial by ordeal. He had to stand before the House and take the withering attacks of Parliamentary opponents, and he had to know the answers. Cried Laborite Philip J. Noel Baker: "In the last war the Jews were very strong. They had great influence in many lands, and we desired their help. . . . Today the Jews are weak and a hunted race. . . . It was because their influence had gone that we dared...
...rebuttal Secretary MacDonald spoke for 80 minutes, and veterans of the House declared that he gave a bang-up Parliamentary performance. He pointed out that it was the impoverished Arab working class who suffered when wealthy Arab landlords sold out to Jews. These ousted Arab workers, he warned, made ideal tinder for an uprising...
...have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated by the comfortable vote of 292-to-129-a far larger majority than that won by the Government on a similar Palestine question last...