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...crowded knickknack splendor of Buckingham Palace one day last week Queen Mary's costly phalanx" of long case clocks marked a fateful teatime. James Ramsay MacDonald's last hour as Prime Minister was striking...
...power than any other Prime Minister since Mr. Asquith consisted last week of exactly ten frumpy women-the type that can be seen in London waiting for the emergence of any celebrity from Princess Marina to Polly Moran. Thin indeed was their cheer, but, fortunately for himself, James Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots he is the captain of his soul. Last week, knowing perfectly well that the Empire considers him a traitor to the Labor friends of his youth and a mealymouthed, vain, vaporing shadow...
...most vital pronouncements, such as his famed "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week Mr. Baldwin, arrayed by his valet for audience with the King-Emperor, waited serenely while George V in Buckingham Palace had a nice long tea with James Ramsay MacDonald...
Time has so mellowed British Labor's bitterness at "Ramsay's Betrayal" that Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury commented with gentlest irony: "I am very glad that all pretense has been swept away and that we have now a good true-blue Tory Prime Minister and an excellent Cabinet to represent the Tory Party. Anyhow, there has never been a National Government except in words...
...Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; then Baldwin. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, also called. Later Scot MacDonald called again, then significantly turned his back on an emergency Cabinet meeting, went off to Scotland, leaving Baldwin to announce Britain's bellicose new air program (see col. 1). Finally Ramsay MacDonald was back again at the palace gates and everybody knew that something...