Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the cabinet, just 24 hours before Conservative Baldwin was scheduled to do the same thing, suddenly came out with a scheme for "guaranteed food purchases from the Dominions through British quota boards." Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden was credited with thus smartly stealing the enemy's thunder. But nobody seemed to think that even "Phil" himself wholeheartedly approves of this merely expedient scheme...
...were feasible it might solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...
Greater interest than has been felt in years centred on the government declaration to be read to the Lords and Commons by the King-Emperor in his "Speech from the Throne"-actually written last week by Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden in council. As though for a zero hour, the Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
...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...