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Despite Equals Because. In 1922, loyal Limehouse sent Attlee to Parliament. In the first Labor government (1924) he was Under Secretary for War. Later India became his specialty. He served on the Simon Commission (1927), made two trips to India. In 1931 Labor's Ramsay MacDonald failed to carry the bulk of the Labor Party with him when he formed a coalition government with Stanley Baldwin's Tories. Old George Lansbury became head of the Labor Party for a time, but the reins of power soon passed into Attlee's hands...
...Ramsay MacDonald...
...mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
...Actually, Britain's first Labor Cabinet, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, was in power from January till October...
...British are nationalizing their electricity. We nationalized ours years & years ago, or a vast part of it. ... (Ramsay MacDonald, here in the 1920s, said we had more socialism than England.) . . . Mr. Attlee nationalized the Bank of England; it is no more nationalized than our Bank of Canada. Also, haven't we a nationalized radio . . . not to speak of complete control of our wheat marketing, nationalized steamships, plus all sorts of other controls...