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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...
Postponed. Because Great Britain's Labor government is split on the question whether to experiment with an Empire tariff scheme (Scotland's MacDonald being pro and Yorkshire's Snowden con), the Prime Minister, in formally opening the Imperial Conference last week, weasled on its major economic problem, stressed "peace & disarmament" (the only field in which his cabinet has acquired kudos) and temporarily postponed proceedings by setting a future plenary conference session vaguely "some six or seven days hence...
...Although you may read that Mr. Snowden is very much opposed to this policy, I am quite sure that the people behind him, who represent organized labor in Great Britain, in no way share his views...
Moreover in the MacDonald Cabinet itself, according to Lord Melchett, "Mr. Snowden stands alone"* in opposition to a tariff policy...
With 2,000,000 men on the dole, with steel-trap Chancellor Philip Snowden set to catch every extravagance at the exchequer, thoughtful Britons learned last week that it costs $3.20 per mi. to run the Royal Train-empty...