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...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
...field of battle they have been trying to cry their way to Victory. Whatever happens they are the injured party. It often works." Last week this judgment of experience was again confirmed when howls of German grief went up at the release in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of a mild White Paper in which the United States, the Soviet Union, the Japanese Empire and the German Reich were cited as engaged in strengthening their armed forces. The conclusion drawn by His Majesty's Government was that Britain must proceed to strengthen hers. Neither U. S. citizens...
...send an emergency call for 500 foot and 50 mounted police because increasingly unpopular Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald that morning brusquely refused to receive a delegation of 50 unemployed. Cried their leader: "Then mark my words, tonight we'll be at the House of Commons in hundreds...
When Chancellor Schuschnigg reached London this week Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, as he always does, turned the visiting political lion over to Lord & Lady Londonderry for a thoroughgoing banquet. Said Chancellor Schuschnigg next morning: "We have not come to ask for a loan," then asked leery British statesmen about Otto's chances...
...Washington high-powered Congressional munitions snoops promptly scoffed and sneered at the new Royal Commission because it is not empowered to extract testimony under oath or to rifle the files of His Majesty's Government. Said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald: "We felt it would be a great mistake to assume, by giving special powers to the commission, that it would have any difficulty in getting witnesses and evidence. But we mean to give it full support in the discharge of its duties...