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Such as it was however, the agreement was signed. As Chairman of the Economic Conference white-crested James Ramsay MacDonald sent invitations, to the other 58 nations invited to the conference to sign the tariff truce...
...return to Washington in July to sign. What commodities would be involved in a swap between the two countries had yet to be developed by experts. Meanwhile the diplomatic sunshine generated by the White House conversations was intermittently dulled by passing clouds following the return last week of James Ramsay MacDonald to London and Edouard Hcrriot to Paris. Mr. MacDonald's carefully guarded report to the House of Commons on his Washington excursion produced vociferous dissatisfaction. He had failed to bring back a hard & fast plan for cutting War debts: that was all that seemed to matter...
...James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain and First Lord of the Treasury, let himself go limp and restful as he and the President viewed and reviewed the economic distress of the world, tried to bring into common focus War Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large...
Aboard the westward steaming newly decorated Berengaria, Britain's idealistic James Ramsay MacDonald was quite shocked out of the philosophical calm with which he has inured himself to crises. Nearly a thousand miles behind him another Socialist, the chunky Mayor of Lyons. Edouard Herriot, was aboard the He de France. When the radioman brought him the news, one of his party exclaimed: "We might as well turn around and go back home." The newly decorated lie de France sailed...
Thus with all solemnity last week Britain cocked the loaded gun Ramsay MacDonald had been given against the trial of six Metropolitan-Vickers engineers for sabotage and espionage. The engineers' sentences were light: acquittal for one, banishment for three, prison terms of two and three years for Engineers MacDonald and Thornton, respectively, whose amazing confessions were never properly explained during the trial (TIME, April 24). Therefore the gun was not fired at once, but it was carefully aimed...