Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
Transcendental Scot. The great commoner at Geneva last week was tall, snowy-haired, ruddy-cheeked Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. He spoke his mind to the Assembly and the World as though he stood in some vast, sky-vaulted International House of Commons. Logical at first, he rose to the passionate climax of a messiah, spoke of "the mystic common tie of nationhoods," showed startlingly how transcendental is his Scotch Socialism...
...seen her father in finer fettle. She understood that he was making an international declaration of what is to be the foreign policy of the British Empire now that he has returned to power. He was taking the world into his confidence, laying his Socialist heart bare. With five prime ministers and 53 national delegations present and listening, apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald proudly watched the unfolding of her father's great speech...
International Security. "The problem of the League of Nations is the prob-lem of Security," began Messiah MacDonald quietly. Recalling that during his short previous term as Prime Minister in 1924 he sought to secure the peace of Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle...
Five-Power Disarmament. Referring to progress made in his naval disarmament pourparlers with President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling...