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Wednesday. Following Stanley Baldwin's retirement. Ramsay James MacDonald went to Windsor, umbrella in hand, obedient to a royal summons, and accepted the King's command to form a new government. King George was out of bed and sitting up to receive him, but little Princess Elizabeth was noticeably absent...
...Leaders. While other British weekenders discussed the situation, made bets, offered advice, the three principals spent their weekend conferring with party colleagues. Stanley Baldwin retired to the prime ministerial estate, "Chequers," in Buckinghamshire. Ramsay MacDonald went to Hampstead. David Lloyd George went to his country place in Surrey, chuckling to newsgatherers...
...Hampstead, Ramsay MacDonald considered himself already in power, spent the weekend picking a tentative Cabinet. Puffing happily on a cigar, his first smoke since he began campaigning early last month, he said: "The results are magnificent, but not surprising. The government has lost the confidence of the country and Labor...
Families. Politics is increasingly a family affair in England. With Ramsay MacDonald in Downing Street will be his hostess-daughter, Ishbel. Behind him on the Labor government benches will sit his son, Malcolm. With Malcolm, looking across at his overthrown Conservative father, will be Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley. Sharing Lloyd George's balance-of-power on the Liberal benches will be the Welshman's round-faced daughter, Megan, and his son, Major Gwilym...
...plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that he was engaged to marry Ramsay's Ishbel. For campaigning purposes he affected a fuzzy chinpiece, Byronic hair and gestures...