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...Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
Just two votes kept James Ramsay MacDonald from motoring over to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to King George last week. By a curious paradox the result of his narrow escape left him more firmly in power than he had been for a month. Several Liberals, darkly muttering "dirty practice" and "not cricket," announced their intention of voting regularly with the Laborites, at least for the immediate future...
Only the Labor press was jubilant, hailed James Ramsay MacDonald as he seemed to advance upon the platform of broad and sympathetic dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would...
...gold but in what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's program of "standardized living" goes into effect at his European plants it will provoke a social industrial revolution. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald was said to be on pins & needles lest the Ford survey soon to begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more in one of those English cities than in the other. Inevitably such proof would rouse the British Labor Party to all kinds...
...Norwegian Defense minister who arrived on a panserskibe (coast-defense battleship. In a British naval "barge"-and nothing is quite so spanking-smart and snobbish as a British naval barge-there landed from the Rodney that recently created peer, Baron Marks of Woolwich, an intimate friend of James Ramsay MacDonald who accompanied the Prime Minister to Washington (TIME, Oct. 7, et seq.) and an outstanding British consulting engineer, Senior Partner of Marks & Clerk, Engineers & Patent Experts, London...