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CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Philip Snowden, Socialist, most unpopular member of the Cabinet. Is foremost proponent of Capital Levy and has a "crabbed, gloomy nature...
Meanwhile in England there is J. Ramsey Macdonald, surrounded in his Cabinet by such intelligentsia as Oliver, Snowden, Webb and Trevelyan, and such rough-and-ready Labor union men as Henderson, Thomas, Walsh, and Hartshorn. Before he accepted the premiership, Macdonald announced the sufficiently socialistic policy of a capital levy, and nationalization of the mines and railways. And there comes as convincing proof of the road this new government is to take the proposal to recognize Soviet Russia...
...same time, it is a mistake to believe that a Labor government will be guilty either of illiteracy or of Bolshevik immediateness. The MacDonald cabinet contains more men of brains than any British cabinet. At least six of the 20 members are intellectuals', notably Viscount Haldane, Philip Snowden, Sir Sydney Oliver, and Sidney Webb...
...Philip Snowden proposed a motion to suppress the capitalist system. It was defeated by 368 to 121 votes. The most important speech was that of Mr. Lloyd George, ex-Premier, who said that Britain, entirely dependent on foreign trade, would be the " worst country in the world to experiment with socialism." He informed the Government, however, that unless they removed existing evils due to the capitalist system they would force the laboring classes to undertake dangerous experiments such as the Labor Party advocated...
...status of Lord Robert Cecil in the Cabinet was the subject of many questions. The Premier, however, was able to postpone the issue, but notice of questions was given by Philip Snowden, Laborite, and Sir W. Ellis Hume-Williams, Conservative; the Premier must make a definite reply soon...