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...James Ramsay MacDonald (March...
With observers in nearly every capital last week stressing the menace of today's little wars* and the danger of another conflict between Great Powers, sturdy, Scottish indomitable James Ramsay MacDonald decided that the time had come for drastic efforts. Taking with him his Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) and an impressive retinue, the Prime Minister appeared at Geneva in the full panoply of the BRITISH EMPIRE. On his way through Paris he failed to persuade French Premier Edouard Daladier to come along -but soon after Mr. MacDonald's arrival in Geneva, M. Daladier changed his mind...
...massacre of political opponents [by the Nazis] might have been dismissed two months ago as crude bravado but cannot be rated so lightly now. . . . Although the rumors may prove unfounded, they continue to reach England from several good sources." London's Daily Herald, one-time organ of James Ramsay MacDonald, now of the British Labor Party, declared: "A quarter-million Nazi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Hitler cannot exercise control, will, it is stated, invade the large towns of Prussia and slaughter all progressive leaders and Jews of whom, both men and women, a long...
Proud as Punch of his double victory, Premier Daladier announced that he would go to London March 15 "to discuss war debts and other major international problems" with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. After that it will be necessary to make an end of hand-to-mouth financing and really balance France's budget...