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...Moscow!" Foremost to cry "This is the work of Reds!" was His Majesty's new Home Secretary, stern Sir John Gilmour, a Scottish veteran of the Boer and World wars. Scot Gilmour told the House of Commons that "about 10,000 persons attacked the police who, despite great provocation, acted with admirable restraint." The whole thing was organized, Sir John said, by the National Unemployed Workers Movement. "That movement, if such it can be called," he cried, "has a material connection with Moscow...
Chiming in after Scot Gilmour, Scot MacDonald asked members of the House "not to say anything that would enable the organizers of the demonstration to pose as benefactors of the unemployed." No such thing was said (see below). Souvenir hunters, prowling over the seven-hour battlefield, collected bits of bloody rags, took snapshots of great dark stains before firemen washed them from the pavement of Boniface Street...
...pious National Prime Minister MacDonald deemed it prudent not to put the Mother Country's new schedules into effect until after a fulldress debate in the London House of Commons, sitting this week. If he takes part in this debate (necessarily defending his government and the Ottawa agreements) Scot MacDonald will thus signalize his complete and final break with Socialism to which all tariffs are anathema...
Zinoviev & Kamenev, Still a Big Red to many an ignorant British voter is bullnecked, tousle-haired Gregory Zinoviev. In 1924 the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" helped to wreck James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet. Addressed to the British Foreign Office, it contained "instructions" from Comrade Zinoviev. thus giving Scot MacDonald's foes a chance to tell British voters that his Government was "not taking orders from Moscow...
...arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With the change of mayors, municipal bonds rose two points...