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Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
...Labor party certainly did not subscribe to the Balfour Note," shouted back Mr. Snowden, "and it should hold itself open, if circumstances arise, to repudiate the conditions of that note...
...think it is a very dangerous thing for Mr. Snowden to utter such words i "boomed the Chancellor. "They might endanger the payments which are even now being made [to Britain by France and Italy] and on which we were counting this year...
Seemingly beside himself, Mr. Snowden spoke even more rashly: "Does Mr. Churchill then maintain that an agreement which is made by a government supported by a party [Conservative] which happens to have a temporary majority in the House of Commons, commits every other party [Labor and Liberal] in the State to the confirmation and acceptance of that agreement in future? If that is to be so, it is a doctrine to which I cannot subscribe...
...calmer moments, even Philip Snowden knows that the Empire's foreign policy is traditionally supposed to have a broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites...