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Next day His Majesty held the third Privy Council at which he has presided since his convalescence began (TIME, Feb. 4). Later he gave private audience to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, heard all about the Naval Disarmament plans of "a dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister...
...nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some say that Labor will run the Government for 20 years. God knows, at the rate we are going, we will need every minute of it to get anything done!" "Rule Britannia." Piqued at the highly favorable reaction of British public opinion to Laborite Ramsay MacDonald's peace odyssey, the Liberal and Conservative leaders in the Commons (both recent Prime Ministers) tried to convince the House, last week, that they had intended and longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour...
...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...
Outstanding as a financier (and his chief is the only living banker who might conceivably be said to outrank him), he is scarcely less an intellectual. His friends include John Masefield, with whom he travels?H. G. Wells, who visits him? Ramsay MacDonald, who dined with him last month. A liberal himself (he supported Cox and Davis because of the League issue, voted for Hoover last fall), he has in his immediate family almost every shade of liberal opinion. His eldest son (Thomas S.) is now, at 31, a Morgan partner, is far more conservative than Corliss, who voted...
...disarmament program the United States should promise to cooperate with other nations in protecting a neutral nation unjustly attacked. The four speakers, accompanied by J. S. Jennison '30, manager, and the coach, will make the trip to Newark. The debate, following as it does the recent visit of Ramsay MacDonald, has aroused a great deal of interest...