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...food tariffs resulting from the Ottawa Conference and the inevitable rise in food prices to British consumers. This new upping he would not stomach. Observers announced that if the Conservatives persisted, they might force not only Premier MacDonald but his faithful Liberal President of the Board of Trade, Walter Runciman, out of the Cabinet...
Ambition & Mrs. Runciman. Also set up last week were the Committee on Relations with Foreign Nations, Committee on Currency, Committee on Customs Regulations, Committee on Economic Relations. All these began work in secret. Strangely enough it was Mrs. Walter Runciman, ex-M.P.?whose husband was supposed to be a high tariff man in the Baldwin delegation?who unbosomed in such a way as to create the first Conference furor...
...good foodstuffs as cheaply as possible is the ambition of the English woman!" said Mrs. Runciman firmly. "A further tax [on food] would take a lot of explaining." Drawn out at greater length Mrs. Runciman said in substance that the British consumer will not submit to higher food prices even to ensure the success of the Conference. She appeared to assume that a tariff shutting non-Empire food out of the Mother Country would inevitably result in the Dominions charging higher prices for their food, even though it should enter the Mother Country duty free. Since Mr. Runciman...
...delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign, bumbling, pipe-puffing Mr. Baldwin came lean, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; dignified President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman whose batwing tie is always straight; undignified Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who drops his h's; other delegates, secretaries, stenographers to the number of 130. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's younger son, tooth-brush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald, came as the delegation's press contact...
Clyde workers, Cunard officials and shareholders were not the only ones who mourned No. 534's plight. In the House of Commons, Clydebank Laborites raged because the Government did not help keep their constituents at work. President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade was as sorry as anyone, admitted that he had been informed that building would have to be stopped but that in discussions Cunard officials the question of direct Government assistance had never raised. "I fear if it had been," sadly he. "there would have been no hop this case.'' He did consider, however...