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Speaking not in his usual vein of pious optimism but as though he fully realized that bitter national rivalries gravely threaten the Conference's chances of success, Scot MacDonald cried: "The world is being driven on a state of things which may well bring it face to face . . . with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that...
...Finally Scot MacDonald, who conceived originally the idea of the World Conference, thanked the League of Nations which organized it and is playing nominal host...
...nickname and few close friends) who dominates Britain's Conservative Party by force of character and purpose. Bumbling old Stanley Baldwin, nominal Party Leader, has almost ceased to count. Since the Conservatives have an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons it is no secret that Scot MacDonald remains Prime Minister by Prime Mover Chamberlain's leave. An arch-deflationist and high-tariff man, the Chancellor of the Exchequer finds it convenient to get the Cabinet's work done beneath the camouflage of a "National Laborite" Prime Minister, popular, warmhearted, lovable. By the attitudes of Neville Chamberlain...
...another Scot was more in the eye of the news and of Edinburgh. The Assembly is opened every year by a Lord High Commissioner who represents the King-Emperor and gets ?2,000 for his work. This year the Commissioner was John Buchan, 57, famed author, third commoner and first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first...
...Great Britain takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...