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With unemployment in Great Britain nearing the 2,000,000 mark (an increase of 500,000 since the Labor Cabinet took office) Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald faced a turbulent House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who, by abstaining with 50 Liberals, spared the Government defeat, complained ominously: "Mr. Snowden treats me nowadays as if I were Mr. Churchill!"* (bitterest Snowden foe). An impression grew that Scot MacDonald may be riding for a fall, partly due to Chancellor Snowden's tsaristic way with the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parity in Tariffs! | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Self-Government." Always somewhat emotional, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said last week apropos of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rule, Riots & Rain | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Moscow this is the very thing Soviet statesmen expect, fear. As Communists they are arrayed against the Capitalist world. They expect it to fight back. When President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald summoned the London Naval Conference a queer thing happened in Moscow. Newsorgans directly under the Dictator's thumb screamed with alarm, warned that at last representatives of the Capitalist nations were meeting to organize secretly a Capitalist attack upon and boycott of the Soviet proletariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Everybody's Red Business | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Like a mouse squeaking at an elephant, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley last week gave Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald his worst scare of the year, caused the unstably balanced Labor Cabinet to wobble, totter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Totters | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...Gandhi were a newborn babe, if James Ramsay MacDonald were his proud father, St. Gandhi could not have been treated with more tender, solicitous care than was lavished by His Majesty's Government last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lady After Saint | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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