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...head. Thenceforward the "ginger group" of the Labor Party harassed the Government at every turn, until Premier Baldwin at length forced the matter to a vote. Then the Laborites, led by the "fire-eating" J. R. Clynes and J. H. Thomas, their "balance-wheel," in the absence of Ramsay Macdonald,* solemnly marched from the hall in protest...
...negotiated and presented to the House during February. . . . The policy of the present Government with respect to Mosul is merely to carry out the policy of Lord Curzon, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne, upon which the adjudication of the League Council is based; and that of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, whose Labor Government ratified the Treaty. . . . Since we have accepted a mandate over the Kingdom of Irak [containing Mosul] from the League, we are pledged to carry it out. If we weaken the League by not doing so, we shall regret that weakening when the League is called upon...
Certain objections to the Treaties were made by the Opposition, headed by former Premiers Ramsay Macdonald and David Lloyd George, although both prefaced his speech by an endorsement of the Treaties as a whole. Objections and answers...
...Writes Dr. Meiklejohn, "I attended the Conference of the Labor Party at Liverpool, and the annual meeting for the drafting of the Labor policy. The party expressed its determined opposition to communism, and the meeting was described almost unanimously by the British press as indicating the complete return of Ramsay McDonald to control and leadership...
...before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...