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...rushing to defend Scot MacDonald against the charge of deliberate perfidy his friends stubbed their toes upon these points: 1) the Passfield Declaration was issued just before the Indian Round Table Conference with its immense Mohammedan contingent convened in London (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.); 2) so long as the Conference sat, not all the Jews in Christendom could move Mr. MacDonald by their incessant pleas, threats, demands; 3) so soon as the Indian Conference adjourned and its Mohammedan members returned to India and reported favorably, just so soon did Scot MacDonald yield to the Jews...
...Scot Scrymgeour's bill was thrown...
...possibly will, but Scot MacDonald did not mind. His government had been saved. The day before the fateful vote British newspaper readers were sharply reminded of what might be in store for them if Conservative Stanley Baldwin should return to power. Labor leaders let it be known that Stanley Baldwin's first move would be an imitation of Benito Mussolini-to cut the wages of all Government employes 10% as an example to the country, in the hope that lower wages would lower prices, stimulate trade. (Already employes of the great Midland Bank have received a 10% clip...
Wayward Winnie. Most exciting political move of the week happened outside Parliament. The performer was moon-faced Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, one-time (1924-29) Chancellor of the Exchequer, No. 2 British Conservative, soldier, War correspondent and 100% Tory. Early in the week Stanley Baldwin had given grudging approval of Scot MacDonald's attempt to solve the Indian problem...
...fired barrages of questions, demands to know why such a decision was made at this time, after Italy & France had been drawn into the contest on Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living," but repeated the Government's three objections: 1) it could not afford $400,000;* 2) competition between governments was distasteful; 3) participation fomented jealousies among Royal Air Force pilots. Moreover, he revealed, he had tried...