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...Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
Debate on the speech continued all week. It was flayed as "most meagre" by James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Opposition and onetime Prime Minister, who declared that Parliament was "in for a long holiday," since the Government had declined to deal with the critical problems of the coal and other vital industries...
Very recently in the London Daily Herald, James Ramsay MacDonald, former premier and present Labor leader, expressed some views on the relationship of the New World with the old. Mr. MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby...
Died. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, 89, first surgeon to operate successfully on cancer of the throat; at Philadelphia. He developed the science of laryngoscopy and taught most of the present specialists. When J. Ramsay MacDonald, onetime English Prime Minister, visited the U. S. last April and fell ill, Dr. Solis-Cohen attended him personally...
...Parliamentary Socialist (Labor) Party once more re-elected as their leader, last week, that capable and kindly Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald, the only Laborite ever to become Prime Minister of England...