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...London luncheon of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association of Paris last week Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald rose to make a speech...
Flushed by his first victory, driving, kinetic M. Tardieu then presented the conference with his plan of procedure. When this had been haggled over and slightly modified, James Ramsay MacDonald said poetically to reporters: "The partition between our position and the French is now so thin that if you should place a candle on one side you could see it from the other...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, spent a busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...
While the U. S. delegation were tossing and pitching in a heavy sea, they were visibly startled and angered by a garbled radio bulletin from London. It quoted Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as saying that he wanted the conference to abolish capital ships or "dreadnoughts...
Statesman Stimson seemed relieved by this turn of affairs; but meanwhile in Washington, President Herbert Hoover let the White House correspondents announce that he stood ready to go as far as Ramsay MacDonald or anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...