Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Equals Because. In 1922, loyal Limehouse sent Attlee to Parliament. In the first Labor government (1924) he was Under Secretary for War. Later India became his specialty. He served on the Simon Commission (1927), made two trips to India. In 1931 Labor's Ramsay MacDonald failed to carry the bulk of the Labor Party with him when he formed a coalition government with Stanley Baldwin's Tories. Old George Lansbury became head of the Labor Party for a time, but the reins of power soon passed into Attlee's hands...
Item: Malcolm Macdonald, Britain's able commissioner general for South-East Asia, reported that he was hopeful of Communist defeat in French Indo-China. Nehru disagreed. He considered Emperor Bao Dai a French puppet...
...fiction-and paper to print it on-hit the magazine even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want them anyway? What people want today is imaginative reporting; the day of fiction has gone...