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...Private Party." As sometimes happens, the mouse's squeak stampeded the elephants. Mr. MacDonald was reported to have offered Sir Oswald the Ministry of Mines to shut him up, but he and Lady Mosley only opened wider...
Leaders Quarrel. What made the mouse-squeak truly terrifying to Elephant MacDonald was a quarrel he had had earlier in the week with David Lloyd George. The bantamweight Liberal leader controls the greater part of a batch of votes on which the life of the Cabinet depends.* He demanded that Mr. MacDonald put through a bill giving the Liberal Party representation in parliament proportional to the number of Liberal votes at the next election.? Scot MacDonald said no to the Welshman. Mr. Lloyd George threatened his worst. At just this moment the mouse squeaked...
Entirely due to President Paul von Hindenburg was the impressive majority. Realizing that the bill had to pass, Centrist opponents of the Young Plan schemed to save their faces by abstaining from the vote to allow the bill to squeak through and become law by the President's signature. The grizzled, grim President, who apparently knows and sees all in German politics, neatly bud-nipped this plan. Summoning the Centrist leader, Dr. Heinrich Briming, he pounded his desk with his gnarled fist, announced that unless the Young Plan was ratified by a majority large enough to show unmistakably that...
...Commons: Cheered stalwart William Graham, President of the Board of Trade (equals "Secretary of Commerce"), when he collapsed from joy-shock at seeing his coal bill squeak through committee stage by nine votes, one more than the House gave it at second reading (TIME, Dec. 30). Friends carried out the collapsed President, sent him home for a stiff dose of sleep...
...eleventh day of debate, at 1:20 A.M., with M. Briand in command, with M. Poin-caré in bed, and with the thermometer at 90° the government put through their law with a vote of 300 ouis to 292 nons. Thus by the narrow squeak of 8 votes-the smallest majority thus far received by the present government-M. Domergue was authorized to pledge that France will pay the U. S. a total of $6,847,-674,104.17 (of which $2,822,674,104.17 is interest) over 62 years. The French Senate must confirm the Chamber...