Word: snowdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the Labor Cabinet took office) Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald faced a turbulent House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who, by abstaining with 50 Liberals, spared the Government defeat, complained ominously: "Mr. Snowden treats me nowadays as if I were Mr. Churchill!"* (bitterest Snowden foe). An impression grew that Scot MacDonald may be riding for a fall, partly due to Chancellor Snowden's tsaristic way with the Cabinet's friends, partly because Minister-in-Charge-of-Unemployment James Henry Thomas is "up against...
...matter bluntly, Mr. MacDonald and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden have been driven by overpowering political forces?perhaps by British public opinion itself?almost to abandon their first love: Socialism...
...House knew, continued Sir Oswald (surprising some of his listeners), the House must surely know that he had been called to advise the Government about unemployment relief. He had drafted a thoroughly Socialist plan?"the Mosley memorandum"?but, at a meeting presided over by Mr. Snowden, the Cabinet had turned this down. As dramatically as possible Sir Oswald proclaimed that this proved that Scot MacDonald would never adopt the true, the right, the Socialist course, the course which the Labor Party (technically Socialist) had a right to demand. Therefore, he had resigned. Whatever the future might hold...
Shrewd, the Mosley outburst struck responsive chords in the Labor Party rank and file. At least 50 thoroughly Socialist M. P.'s began to talk as though they would support Sir Oswald. He prepared a motion (practically a vote of censure against Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden) for submission to a "private Party meeting" of all Labor M. P.'s. There was talk? and not loose talk either?that the Government's slim majority in the House of Commons had been whittled down to the snapping point...
House Master Henderson. At the meeting of 239 Labor M. P.'s to debate Sir Oswald's motion against leaders MacDonald and Snowden, they were defended by jovial "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, Foreign Minister and a tolerably good Socialist...