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...pacifism of James Ramsay MacDonald has long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime...
...British Cabinet's grill last week was Scot MacDonald's aristocratic social mentor, Air Minister the Marquess of Londonderry. Since breeding and habit cause British statesmen to disregard what they read in the papers. Lord Londonderry was severely blamed by most of his Cabinet colleagues last week for not informing them months ago that most of what "the newspapers" were printing about German air rearmament was true. Since Deutschland has now stolen an air march on England, the Cabinet last week could only urge Lord Londonderry to build British battle planes as fast as Britains...
...Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they...
...when new contracts are drawn, the Government's chief negotiator will probably be the only important man in Canada last week who did not voice an opinion on the Hydro bill-Thomas Stewart Lyon, Hydro's head. A short, wiry Scot fairly bristling with a kind of fierce honesty, Chairman Lyon was appointed by Premier
John Buchan, 59, is a smallish, tightlipped, prudent Scot, an able romanticist in most of his 50 books, an able realist in life. Son of a middle-class preacher, he has many potent friends, few enemies; many abilities, no vices. He has been a lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King...