Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dance of Death. "Beware the Socialists!" was the gist of a rousing campaign speech which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin exhaled into the sooty air of Manchester. As usual, Squire Baldwin, benign scion of an old iron-mongering family, seemed comfortably content with himself and the world...
Jammed and squashed into nine large halls, some 30,000 workpeople heard the Prime Minister's husky voice, mostly from the lipless mouths of loud speakers...
Obviously such promises are electioneering tosh, but in 1918 Prime Minister Lloyd George won an election by promising to "hang the Kaiser," and today he knows that what the 1,400,000 British unemployed want to have promised them is jobs...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
Seldom has there been a national political situation more grotesque. General Hertzog remains Prime Minister by virtue of a slim, coalition majority in the House of Assembly-a majority constantly threatened by the Negro-elected Cape Province M. P.s. In the Senate the Smuts party reigns supreme, holding 25 seats out of 40. Thus the House and Senate negate each other on almost every important bill, and showdowns must be constantly had under the Constitutional provision that both chambers shall sit, fight, and vote jointly when unable to come to an agreement as separate bodies. The bill which Prime Minister...