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...Lords- ¶ Received into their House former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who, scarcely able to support the weight of his ermine-barred, scarlet robes, hobbled painfully on his two canes up to Lord Chancellor Sankey and piped "I, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, swear by Almighty God that I will bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help...
Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Impishly Mr. Churchill, in whose veins flows the blue blood of the House of Marlborough (his cousin is the present Duke), grinned. Impishly low-born Lord Snowden grinned back. It was even scurrilously whispered that these friendly enemies exchanged winks...
...title of Philip Snowden, Lord Privy Seal in the British Cabinet...
...Debts and Reparations "this absurd entanglement of the impossible." They relaxed, yawned when he proposed nothing more than to follow the line of re-examining German capacity-to-pay, the line already taken by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval. When Orator MacDonald turned to gold, harping on Philip Snowden's old project for a world monetary conference to "wisely redistribute" the precious metal, M. P.s noticed again that in fiscal matters the Prime Minister is a romantic. Realistically the U. S. and France oppose all schemes for "distributing" their gold except the mechanism of international exchange, which Ramsay MacDonald...