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Even more embittered than Scot Jock McGovern, Welshman George Daggar snarled: "The passing of the former Prime Minister will do no harm. Some of us would like to read the news in the paper that he had done the best thing, that is, go out and hang himself...
Australia's MacDonald. If Englishmen were not so ignorant of Australia, they might point out that James Ramsay MacDonald's desertion of the Labor Party which had made him Prime Minister and his formation of a National Government was exactly paralleled in Australia by Premier Lyons. Neither the Scot nor the Tasmanian was ever a true toiler in the Marxian sense. Both got their start as schoolteachers. And of Ramsay MacDonald it might have been said, as one of Joe Lyons' admiring biographers has frankly said of him, that "when it came to politics he stood for the Labor cause...
Patrick Balfour stepped from his train into London one dull, grey morning, stopped to read a sandwichman's sign: "To India by Rolls-Royce car for ?34." A Scot who could trace his ancestors to Robert the Bruce, Patrick Balfour knew that there must be a catch in it somewhere. Nevertheless two weeks later he was on his way to the Far East, traveling with strangers in two old automobiles...
Driving back to Downing Street, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin found the outgoing Cabinet at No. 10, proceeded to reorganize it as his new Cabinet on the spot. The sinecure he had held, Lord President of the Council, he bestowed on Scot MacDonald, who is thus assured of ?2,000 ($10,000) per year for the further loan of his prestige. To the nation Lord President of the Council MacDonald soon declared: "I hope the confidence and support given the National combination I headed will be renewed to the same combination under its new Prime Minister...
...political thing in England. Last week nearly every member of the National Cabinet trooped through the gates of Buckingham Palace to talk to the heavy-eyed old man. First it was MacDonald and his Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; then Baldwin. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, also called. Later Scot MacDonald called again, then significantly turned his back on an emergency Cabinet meeting, went off to Scotland, leaving Baldwin to announce Britain's bellicose new air program (see col. 1). Finally Ramsay MacDonald was back again at the palace gates and everybody knew that something...