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...Mitchell was unable to answer Senator Reed's question as to why "the progeny of Americans who had nothing to do with the World War should bear the burden while the progeny of other nations go scot free...
Sensing that Scot MacDonald's "weak" policy is really "strong," the House decisively rejected 369 to 43 last week a die-hard proposal by Winston Churchill specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
...have met with obstacles," cried Scot MacDonald, "but one of those optimists to whom humanity owes the most of its progress said : 'Obstacles were made to be overcome.' In that buoyancy of spirit and good will which comes from it, let us go on with our common task ! " Facing a third and nobody knows how many more $1,000,000 conferences, St. Gandhi, who had a heavy cold, received the Prime Minister's oration with no buoyancy of spirit whatever...
...will study your declaration," he said thickly to Scot MacDonald, "once or twice or thrice, or as often as may be necessary, scanning every word of it, reading its hidden meaning if there is a hidden meaning in it-and if I then come to the conclusion, as just now seems likely, that as far as I am concerned we have come to the parting of the ways, it does not matter to us. ... The dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life, and sometimes even blood brothers have got to go each...
...returned by the largest Conservative majority in British history, hurried Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich, pious, ultra-Conservative and politely anxious to sell as much as possible of Canada's towering grain surplus. Last week Mr. Bennett ate the last of several quiet meals with Scot MacDonald and Minister of Dominions James Henry Thomas. Then, without a word for publication, reticent Premier Bennett sailed for Canada while his great and blatant friend, Baron Beaverbrook, trumpeted Bennett achievements...