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...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...
Empire Day. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's father in law is Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program...
...sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled by men with almost as little formal education as himself (Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden attended board school...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...