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...port seems to have been extended to include a freedom of action in transit which involves great inconvenience and annoyance to other travellers. Irritating as it must have been to the sixteenth century tourist to see the Heidelberg boys of the day going through the custom house Scot free, this feeling is hardly to be classed with the reaction of the honest Cambridge citizen returning from the great city showered in Stygian darkness with ground glass...
...appeared that all Scot MacDonald seriously contemplated was that there should be a continuation of the Washington Treaty halt in capital ship building for six years more, the whole subject to be reviewed at another conference...
What had he really said? If correctly quoted he had indeed upset the nicely balanced applecart of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some...
...Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons...
...Laborites (i. e. Socialists), showed their Communist colors by abstaining. All but two Liberals turned against Mr. MacDonald. And the only thing that saved his government from falling was the abstention of 32 of his avowed enemies, the Conservatives, who are afraid to risk a general election now while Scot MacDonald is in the heyday of his Hoover prestige...