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...issue, personal and national: should Scot MacDonald. who up to last week had done no more than leave his Labor friends in the lurch (TIME, Sept. 31), now decree an immediate general election and fight Labor (i.e. Socialism) up & down the land as leader of a new "National Party," this to consist of the Conservatives and Liberals supporting the Prime Minister's "National" Government...
...Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, militant Conservatives have been pounding Scot MacDonald to decree an immediate election. Their reasons: 1) The National Government's 10% cut in the dole will be felt increasingly as time goes on, discontent meaning more & more Labor votes the longer an election is delayed. 2) The rise in internal prices due to the National Government's taking the pound off gold means that Britons will soon pay more for bread and meat, may swing toward Labor in their wrath. 3) Conservative strategists think present days of crisis are the ideal time to convince...
...that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords (Commons were already sitting) to an emergency session...
...bricks at a fixed price, be suspended "for the time being." Britain returned to the financial arrangement she had had through the War and until 1925. In the House of Commons, Edward of Wales listened tensely, leaning over the clock in the Peers' Gallery. Wrote Scot MacDonald...
...nuts, he arrived in a small Wolseley saloon upholstered in scarlet leather. Dignified Sir Samuel Hoare attracted no little attention by popping suddenly from the interior of a small Baby Austin. Despite the secrecy of hotel employes, reporters discovered that St. Gandhi had had a secret conference with Scot MacDonald in the swank Dorchester Hotel...