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...fiery Wartime pacifism of James Ramsay MacDonald has long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign...
...modern conditions) a cooperative prince embodied in several persons, of whom the chief, at present, is King George. Politically, King George has been somewhat less forceful than his father, and one of the few personal acts for which he is likely to be remembered is his invitation to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, after defeat at the polls, to become His Majesty's Prime Minister in the National Government. The twenty-five years of his reign, however, have been years in which personality has counted for less and less in politics; "the King's reign has been full of great events...
Silver-haired Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald led off the second procession-six carriages, each with a British Premier-Canada's Bennett riding cheek by jowl with South Africa's Hertzog...
...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the House of Commons: "I must express surprise that this moment has been chosen by Germany to announce a shipbuilding program, especially the building of submarines. . . . The German decision is ominous and I do not minimize its gravity. . . . It would be a great calamity if there were any weakening or deterioration in the confidence which exists between France, Italy and ourselves, and we will take all care we humanly can that that shall not happen...
...flashed off to every German editor this order: DO NOT USE BRITISH ACCOUNTS OF THE MACDONALD ARTICLE AS THE GERMAN NEWS BUREAU IS ISSUING A SPECIALLY PREPARED TEXT. Thus the German people were prevented this week from reading an article earnestly addressed to them by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in his National Labor fortnightly News Letter. Into this pronouncement against Adolf Hitler, the strongest yet issued by a leading statesman of any Great Power, Mr. MacDonald packed many a homely Scotch remark...