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...days before in opening this emergency session of Parliament Dramatic Scot MacDonald had warned...
Orders In Council. There was little that the Opposition could do, but Scot MacDonald and his National Cabinet took no chances. Having tried their strength and received a majority vote of 94 they made themselves a dictatorship so far as economy measures and financial bills are concerned. They slammed through a measure to put all emergency economy measures into effect by orders in council signed by King George without the necessity of formal legislative approval...
Laborites raged. Scot MacDonald's little old friend John Robert ("Johnny") Clynes turned to the Labor benches...
...young Laborites were so affected by this that they forgot that Scot MacDonald was bound by the Coalition agreement to take most of their jobs away from them anyhow...
...Yorkshire Likes Pluck." As a matter of fact, Scot MacDonald was by no means near the end. Laborite M. P.'s who had deserted him fortnight ago were beginning to feel sheepish. Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic. The Downing Street mailbag was stuffed with telegrams and letters of support, not a few from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee...