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British interest was especially roused at the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary Gregory because he is remembered in connection with the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
...program follows: Peg-a-Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...
...Parliamentary tributes paid, last week, to the late Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, that of James Ramsay MacDonald was perhaps most moving. Speaking as a Laborite who had fought Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, Mr. MacDonald said: "He was the last of what Victorians meant by great parliamentarians-men of leisure and culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would...
With his heavy Scotch brows knit in a worried frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...
Inevitably the first result of such "experienced and powerful" throat-cutting between two major groups will be a slaughter of the independent provincial evening newspapers. It was this which James Ramsay MacDonald called, last week, "an alarming situation...