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...that he had been called to advise the Government about unemployment relief. He had drafted a thoroughly Socialist plan?"the Mosley memorandum"?but, at a meeting presided over by Mr. Snowden, the Cabinet had turned this down. As dramatically as possible Sir Oswald proclaimed that this proved that Scot MacDonald would never adopt the true, the right, the Socialist course, the course which the Labor Party (technically Socialist) had a right to demand. Therefore, he had resigned. Whatever the future might hold he and the true Socialists of the party would stand together on giving 25 shillings a week...
...bantamweight Liberal leader controls the greater part of a batch of votes on which the life of the Cabinet depends.* He demanded that Mr. MacDonald put through a bill giving the Liberal Party representation in parliament proportional to the number of Liberal votes at the next election.? Scot MacDonald said no to the Welshman. Mr. Lloyd George threatened his worst. At just this moment the mouse squeaked...
Whereas all major New York papers gave "The European Union" from half a page to a page, the British Labor Party's Daily Herald played it down to less than half a column. Britons of all parties seemed uneasy lest a European bloc against Eng land emerge. Since Scot MacDonald is a Socialite on cordial terms with the Second (Socialist) International, he was placed in an awkward fix last week. For French, German and indeed all Socialist papers on the Continent hailed "The European Union" as a braingrandchild of the Internationale. (M. Briand. of course, is a Socialist...
Flabbergasting Name. Laborites explained that the means to which Scot MacDonald resorted to satisfy his curiosity were justified by the grave Indian crisis. When three newspapers (London Daily Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Manchester Daily Dispatch) let out in advance the state secret that the MacDonald Government had decided to arrest St. Gandhi in India (TIME, May 12) even the cool Scot's nerves jumped...
Though newsmen could not get the canny Scot to unpurse his "reasons" they passed over the cables his token coins of optimism. Meanwhile the U.S. Congress voted $150,000 to sustain the U.S. delegation at London's Ritz Hotel, when advised by the President that their original appropriation of $200,000 has been spent. Conservative estimates placed the cost to the five powers of achieving what Mr. MacDonald called "Confidence" at roughly $1,000,000, or a trifle over $14 per minute night and day since the conference assembled (TIME...