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...committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass. In his speech Premier Blum had smoothly avoided replying to taunts that he himself seemed to have become about as radical as Britain's Ramsay MacDonald and to be leaving in the lurch the French proletariat-but the Communists and Socialists did not last week leave M. Blum, as English Laborites turned from Mr. MacDonald. The Reds scowled, but voted for the financial volte-face of Blum, the Pinks voted for it, and virtually...
...Communist and Socialist supporters something to tell the proletarians back home, Premier Blum issued a Cabinet decree "nationalizing" the Schneider-Creusot works, biggest French armorers, and commonly called by irate Red & Pink orators such names as "The Blood-Sucking Armament Octopus." There was no reason to suppose that Ramsay Delano MacBlum was not perfectly sincere in issuing this decree, but it does not go into effect on any particular date. Eventual action is made to turn on the advice of the French General Staff, which is about as keen to turn Schneider-Creusot over to political Reds & Pinks...
...James Ramsay MacDonald would have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...Secretary of War George Henry Dern, of complications from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
...lordly libels Mr. Duff Cooper did not trouble to bring suit. Socialist Ponsonby, being a peer, could not carry his attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell...