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...seduction" of the Scot continued until his whole outlook on life has come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...
...National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...
There was no struggle in the Prime Minister's conscience, Lord Snowden insists. "He [MacDonald] had always entertained a feeling of something like contempt for trade union leaders," reminisced the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. "His mind, a long time before this crisis arose, had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a 'Council of State.' He set about the formation of a National Government with an enthusiasm which showed the adventure was highly agreeable...
Thus brutally did Lord Snowden reverse the popular belief that for once King George did something of importance, winning over his Prime Minister when the Scotsman came to Buckingham Palace determined to resign. As a matter of fact, according to Lord Snowden, "The day after the National Government was formed he [MacDonald] came into my room in Downing Street in very high spirits. I remarked to him that he would now find himself very popular in strange quarters. He replied gleefully, rubbing his hands, 'Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss...
Pleasant royal legends die hard. Lord Snowden's revelations proved anything but popular. Typical of Empire editorial reaction was a dressing-down which the dyspeptic Viscount received from Ottawa's sturdy Evening Citizen: "He [Snowden] is on record as having kowtowed as Chancellor to the Lords of 'sound' money just as much as Ramsay MacDonald has been Chanticleer in the hen-run of society dowagers. The Prime Minister's chaste cheek may have been impressed with various flavors of London society's lipstick, but Comrade Snowden is in the House of Lords because...