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Politicians of the British Labor (Socialist) party called on Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald to reply. They feared a "whispering campaign" in the next British election among Catholic voters. Whisper: "You can't vote Labor. The Pope meant that you must vote either Liberal or Conservative...
...Barrie (Peter Pan), whose right hand has been crippled by illness, had issued 20 private copies of a 60,000-word biography called The Greenwood Hat. Those of his friends to whom he sent copies of the book, including his particularly close friend and fellow Scotsman, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, are pledged to secrecy as to the volume's contents. Title of the book comes from a well-known Barrie legend. When he first went to London he decided to visit the late Editor Frederick Greenwood of St. James's Gazette, bought a new hat for the meeting...
Engaged. Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, permanent undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, likely candidate for Ambassador to the U. S. some day (he prepared all for Ramsay MacDonald's U. S. visit), widower son-in-law of General William Christian Heppenheimer of Jersey City; and Lady Barclay, widow of Sir Colville Barclay, onetime British Minister at Budapest...
...first long flight last autumn, it cost Britain practically her whole staff of dirigible experts; it cost millions of dollars; worst of all, it cost public confidence in Britain's lighter-than-air program. Last week that loss was recorded in an announcement by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald that the Government had temporarily abandoned its airship building program...
...Were threatened by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with the creation of enough Labor peers to give his Cabinet working control of their House...