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...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
Other Cabinet appointees: ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty: onetime Lay Preacher Albert Victor Alexander, who had the job under Ramsay Mac-Donald...
...Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair, big Scottish landowner, Legion of Honor hero in World War I and among Winston Churchill's closest advisers. Mentioned among the ginger groups as a possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed at the false prophets telling us that Hitler missed...
...Ramsay MacDonald has been flayed before, but never so mercilessly as Mr. Muggeridge flays him as "Mr. High-Mind"; Buchmanism has been ridiculed before, but seldom so savagely: "Like moral courage, moral victory, moral anything, Moral Rearmament represents an attempt to reconcile the contrary demands of flesh and spirit by including them in one comprehensive formula. Moral Cannibalism would probably make a strong appeal to cannibals, and Moral Rape to the inmates of lunatic asylums." So it goes, with reference to almost everything: fuddlement, vulgarity and ineptitude...
...press officer. At 30 he became Under Secretary for Dominions in his father's cabinet, handed his increased salary of $5,700 back to the Government on the ground that the $1,520 he earned as an M.P. was enough for a bachelor.* In 1935, when Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin switched jobs and Baldwin became Prime Minister, Young Malcolm, then only 34, became a full-fledged Cabinet member as Colonial Secretary...