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...meant Europe had decided to scrap public conferences for the summer in favor of private conferences. Two of sensational interest were immediately announced. In Chancellor Adolf Hitler's entourage at Berlin it was authoritatively said that he would soon confer with Premier Benito Mussolini; and Prime Minister James Ramsay McDonald announced that M. Barthou had accepted an invitation to confer with him. The Italians also invited M. Barthou to confer with Senor Mussolini...
...latter's home (TIME. April 30). According to House of Commons rules, tampering with a witness or exerting pressure to change testimony is a High Crime and Misdemeanor. The House listened gravely to Tory Churchill's charge of bribery-by-belly. instructed its committee on privilege, including Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, to hear the charge...
Knowing what was about to be said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing...
Even so the committee on privilege assembled with snowy-crested Ramsay MacDonald as its chairman. In the House of Lords paunchy Lord Derby begged his peers' permission to testify before it. Should the charge be substantiated, the mildest punishment that the House can inflict will be to summon both Sir Samuel and Lord Derby to the Bar of the House, there to receive a good round scolding from the Speaker...
...under the aegis of Karl Marx, lasted ten years, disintegrated through lack of centralization. The Second International (Labor & Socialist) started in 1889. It went to pieces during the War, was resuscitated in 1923. Pale pink, and hated by Communists, it still exists but with small prestige. Famed oldtime members: Ramsay MacDonald; onetime Burgomaster Seitz of Vienna; Friedrich Ebert, first President of Germany. The lusty Komintern or Third International was founded by Nikolai Lenin in 1919, controls and directs Communist activities in 46 countries, despises Internationals Two and Four...