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Tense and weary one 10 a. m. last week Scot MacDonald boarded The Flying Scotsman. As she puffed out of London a dining car steward offered place tickets for lunch and the Prime Minister took one. Snorting swiftly North, the famed express had crossed one-third of England before luncheon bells rang. With scant appetite the leader of the "National Government" forked food mechanically. Into the diner walked a lifelong friend, Arthur Henderson, leader last week of the Labor Party which Mr. MacDonald led a few short weeks ago. The two men neither spoke nor nodded, cut each other dead...
...knows, Seaham's Laborite Council has demanded that he resign his seat (TIME, Sept. 7). But the Prime Minister returned to sullen Seaham last week, convinced that he could explain and justify his policies, hoping that Seaham would have him for her own again as a Laborite. Repeatedly Scot MacDonald has exclaimed to his new Conservative and Liberal colleagues in the National Government, "If only I had time to talk to the British working...
Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
...days in Earl De La Warr's house passed. Pale, unsmiling. Mr. MacDonald returned to Downing Street, had nothing to say. His doctor admitted the Prime Minister's "extreme nervous fatigue" but called his health satisfactory. Still torn by alternatives. Scot MacDonald week-ended at Chequers, returned to London still pale, still silent...
...Conservative headquarters party workers gathered, talked of Oct. 28 as the "dead cert." election date. Opinion hardened that the hesitant P.M. must decide for an election soon. Suddenly to cap Scot MacDonald's woes came an ultimatum from Mahatma Gandhi. Impatient of delay by the Indian Round Table Conference, Mr. Gandhi said that a month of further delay because of a General Election would be intolerable, would make it necessary for him to return to India. King George, too. was said last week to be opposing an election, fearful perhaps of social upheaval...