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...meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...most vivid childhood memory" Scot MacDonald conjured thus: "It is very hard on a frosty morning. We have to get up while it is still dark, and we trudge a mile or two along a frost-bitten dirt road...
Labor's formal but innocuous attack on the Speech (written of course not by King George but by Scot MacDonald) was launched by Labor M. P. Sir Stafford Cripps, an alert "comer" now forging to party leadership. Sir Stafford moved an amendment to the Throne Speech regretting that it had "omitted all items of socialistic legislation," saw his amendment killed by the crushing Government majority, largest in British history (TIME...
...Puzzled over the Prime Minister's opening Parliamentary speech, which Scot MacDonald made as innocuous as the words he had put into George V's mouth, but more exciting...
Studying the entire Cabinet, observers noted that every key post is held by an experienced, middle-of-the-road politician. Right and Left extremists have been excluded. In finance the new National Gov-ernment's line is clearly Protection in foreign affairs. In Indian affairs Scot Mac-Donald maintained the status quo (an Anglo-Indian deadlock) by appointing as Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, already British representative at the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference...