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...Steps Snowden. At heart all British Laborites are free traders, because they are all Socialists. Scot MacDonald's wavering toward an Empire tariff wall in recent weeks (TIME, Sept. 15) has merely reflected the fear of many Laborites that this new panacea will prove an unbeatable vote getter. But fear is not in pallid, crippled Philip Snowden. With the courage of an epileptic or a madman (though he is neither) he defied the Great Powers at The Hague Conference and won (TIME, Aug. 19, 1929 et seq.). Last week he forced the Prime Minister to let him at the Imperial...
...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...Oswald as a sincere, hardworking convert to Socialism. He was assigned last year to help Jim Thomas fight unemployment. He resigned in protest at the latter's happy-go-lucky methods, drafted a plan of his own, the secret Mosley Memorandum (TIME, June 2) which was submitted to Scot MacDonald but never published...
Weighing his words anxiously, Mr. Graham stressed the "extreme reluctance" with which British labor would embark on a high tariff policy, left his hearers with the impression that Scot MacDonald, lifelong free-trader that he is, will soon "reluctantly" embark...
...enough not to frighten seriously stand-pat-Laborite free traders, an 8% levy might serve to hold the votes of other Laborites now tempted to bolt into the Rothermere or Beaverbrook tariff camps. The 8% scheme, it was revealed last week, has been worked out for Scot MacDonald -no great economist-by the Special Commission he appointed last spring to report on tariffs as an antidote to unemployment (TIME, March...