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...many weeks Scot MacDonald has realized that while the more cautious Conservative leaders were far from anxious for a general election, young Conservative hotheads were eager for the first opportunity to throw out the Labor Government...
When the count showed that Scot MacDonald's cabinet had been saved by three votes (later corrected to two), the sneaking 140 chorused "Resign! Resign...
...begin in London and in Manchester, should prove that a shilling is worth more in one of those English cities than in the other. Inevitably such proof would rouse the British Labor Party to all kinds of imperative demands upon the Prime Minister which he dare not face. At Scot MacDonald's urgent request, the Ford investigators will probably announce their English findings on the basis of an average struck between the Manchester shilling and the London shilling...
...took a favorable tone toward Sir John Simon's well meant and laboriously conceived recommendations for giving India a mite more freedom-all except the Daily Herald, news organ closest to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. This paper recalled that in 1927, when the Simon Commission was organized, Scot MacDonald, then out of office, prophesied: "The Simon Report will give 1,000 reasons for just a little more tutelage." According to the Herald this prophecy has now been fulfilled...
...trenchant defense of the Treaty, Scot MacDonald said: "It is our position that mere armaments will not give security. . . . Limitation by treaty is necessary. . . . Those who so much regret that the London Conference reached only a three-and not a five-power agreement should recall that only three powers attended the Geneva conference...