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Nothing could have been more simple, more dignified and more sane than certain speeches that Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a fortnight ago in Montreal. She told crowded houses all about the Labor movement in Britain. She explained the uphill fight of the pre-Labor Government period, the inner frictions of the Labor Cabinet and what is now being done...
...first was a pleasing reference to the British Royal Family which, in Canada, and Montreal not least of all, is reviewed with more general and genuine affection than it is in Britain. Mrs. Snowden declared that the sympathetic attitude of British Royalty to the Labor Ministers and officials had established forever the "English Throne in the hearts of the English people...
...second statement was a criticism of ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald's leadership. Mrs. Snowden inferred that it had been bad; she actually said he had taken too much upon himself. She made no excuses for him. Unfortunately, coming from the wife of the ex-Chancellor who was notoriously out of sorts with his Chief, such a statement provoked much criticism...
From London, The Morning Post, relentless enemy of ex-Premier MacDonald, immediately put the capital created by Mrs. Snowden at interest by writing an editorial...
...incorruptible member of the Labor Party (Philip Snowden), to do him justice, always played the game with his chief. Even when Mr. MacDonald was prepared to raid the treasury for the most unmitigated scoundrels who ever disgraced civilization, Mr. Snowden bowed his head, and if he cursed at all, he cursed under his breath...