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Since then, according to Lord Snowden, Britain's Conservatives who hold the whip hand of majority over Scot MacDonald have made him their creature to such an extent that: ''They will have no use for him at the next election, except the use that is made of a reformed drunkard at a temperance meeting...
...stonily through a great squirting of spleen at the Prime Minister by an old friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign...
...audience last week the Prime Minister chose that most tactful and sympathetic of men, President Roosevelt's grey and graceful little "Disarmament Ambassador," Norman H. Davis. The chat at No. 10 between Scot MacDonald and Tennesseean Davis made clear that if the scheduled 1935 Naval Conference is held at all, it will be not a Disarmament but an Armament Conference. Somewhat pathetically the Prime Minister uttered Earl Beatty's arguments which are, in a nutshell, that Japan's new truculence and her seizure of Manchukuo make it imperative to strengthen the Royal Navy...
...Upon Scot MacDonald the impending wreckage of his disarmament hopes threw a strain as severe as that which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister...
...many a reader of TIME, by far the most attractive item in the May 21 issue was an excellent photograph of the brown-eyed, attractive Lucky Strike girl which graced the back cover. In the minds of some such readers arose the question: "Did the Scot Tissue Towels ad on p. 53 employ the same model...