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...still believe it is possible for India to remain within the British Empire." This conservative phrase was uttered not by Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, nor by Ramsay MacDonald. The words are those of the "wonderworker" Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, now recuperating at the Poona mountain-rosort from the effects of confinement in Yeravda Prison for sedition...
...Ramsay MacDonald: "I and my friends erected in front of my former home in Lincoln's Inn Fields the statue of woman with arms outstretched to little children. It bears the inscription: 'Placed here in memory of Margaret Ethel MacDonald, who spent her life in helping others.' She was my wife who died in 1911, leaving me five children. The 'others' refers to charwomen and barmaids, whose working conditions my wife delighted to improve...
...days' battle in the Senate was momentous. On the first day, the energetic little Premier disposed of the concern over the fall of the franc by exulting that the "counteroffensive" of the Bank of France had routed the enemy. He announced that relations with Ramsay MacDonald were good, that the U. S. was cooperating "with France, and then sat back to listen...
...Great Britain the Government of Ramsay MacDonald is officially standing aloof from the question. British Moslem possessions are so diversified as to share all dissensions in Moslem theology. However, it is generally felt that the quick action of setting up King Hussein Ibn Ali . of the Hedjaz as the first claimant to the Califate will have only one beneficiary, the British Empire...
Back from England came the answer: "I am Ramsay MacDonald." So those papers and magazines who have been following the Manchester Guardian and the British Who's Who will change from little d-ians to big D-ians...