Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disastrous Policy." Scabrous French weeklies called Philip Snowden a "nasty little gnome" and worse when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held out for a few more millions at The Hague Reparations Conference and returned to Great Britain as a national hero (TIME. Sept. 9, 1929). Last week it was this same Philip Snowden, now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, who precipitated the nasty crisis, caused London's Laborite Daily Herald to headline prematurely LORD SNOWDEN WRECKS THE CABINET...
...things Lord Snowden actually did were1) to denounce the Ottawa Conference and all its tariff works "which will lead to the disruption of the Empire and' [are] fraught with great danger to our international relations"; 2) to declare with the immense financial authority of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer that Great Britain now faces an economic crisis more disastrous than last year (when the pound slipped off gold); 3) to resign as Lord Privy Seal, denouncing Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as a traitor to the traditional Labor Party tenet of Free Trade...
...need not say that I regret to be compelled to take this action," wrote Lord Snowden to Mr. MacDonald in his letter of resignation, "for it severs our 40 years of close political association and cooperation. . . . But I cannot longer without loss of self-respect remain a member of a Government which is pursuing a policy that I believe is disastrous...
...resignations of Viscount Snowden and two of his colleagues from the British Nationalist government could hardly have been unexpected after the results of the Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which...
...continue the supply. Further news of the Twelfth: ¶ In London bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed its insolvency on 1) loss of customers killed in the War, 2) the popularity of automobiles, 3) high tariffs, 4) changed social conditions. ¶ In Ickornshaw, Yorkshire, where Viscount Philip Snowden was born, hundreds of jobless men took advantage of their ancient right of free shooting, reaped handsome profits, spoiled the shooting for sportsmen. ¶ At Balmoral the King & Queen were expected this week. In anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers to an intimate, not particularly...