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Miss Ishbel MacDonald took her father for long, slow motor drives through the beauteous Swiss countryside. In London it was a matter of common remark that President Hoover had stolen the Prime Minister's thunder (see col. 3). It was even said that unless Scot MacDonald achieves a spectacular success of some sort in Switzerland his loss of prestige will make it impossible for him to continue as the head of Great Britain's National Government...
...MacDonald opened the Conference with a speech quoting the Basle Committee's urgent advice last year that "adjustment of all intergovernmental debts to the existing troubled situation of the world . . . should take place without delay if new disasters are to be avoided" (TIME, Jan. 4). A great orator, Scot MacDonald gave new freshness to this stale, sound advice by rolling out such exhortations...
Firstconferences in Paris with Premier Edouard Herriot again visibly discouraged Scot MacDonald, but gradually the two statesmen felt their way back to that amicable ground on which they stood in 1924. Shoulder to shoulder then, they made possible the Dawes Plan which, though it failed, was better than no plan and marked a first step toward solving the same old problems that faced M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald last week. After a three-hour conference and a formal luncheon, the two statesmen motored out to Versailles, wandered together around Queen Marie Antoinette's "Play Village," had tea with Socialite...
...Deputies' oath of fealty to England's King. Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before, George V succeeded in bucking up Scot MacDonald who had entered the Palace glum, emerged beaming to catch the train for Paris with Sir John Simon, his Foreign Minister. The Press asked: "Are you leaving with great hopes?" The Prime Minister nodded vigorously but the Foreign Minister said, "I am leaving with great determination...
...George V, who sent flowers to James Ramsay MacDonald after his second (right) eye operation, visited the Prime Minister and told him severely to stop fidgeting and lie perfectly still as his doctors recommended. Less fidgety after this Royal command. Scot MacDonald improved rapidly, left London for a month's complete rest at his Lossiemouth home, "The Hillocks...