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...Philip Snowden a "nasty little gnome" and worse when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held out for a few more millions at The Hague Reparations Conference and returned to Great Britain as a national hero (TIME. Sept. 9, 1929). Last week it was this same Philip Snowden, now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, who precipitated the nasty crisis, caused London's Laborite Daily Herald to headline prematurely LORD SNOWDEN WRECKS THE CABINET...
Wrong, All Wrong! Because people never take very seriously a man who is frankly fuming with rage, Viscount Snowden's charges and resignation might have been ignored last week, had not the Cabinet's orthodox Liberal pontiff, Sir Herbert Samuel, simultaneously resigned as Home Secretary, together with nine other Government Liberals. These ranged from stuffy Sir Archibald Sinclair who resigned as Secretary of State for Scotland, to brilliant Lord Lothian (the onetime Philip Kerr) who as Under-Secretary of State for India has been the Cabinet's brains in that quarter. (So indispensable was Lord Lothian found...
...most U. S. citizens the name of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is known as that of the longtime (1905-16) British Foreign Secretary who reluctantly but vigorously led his country into the World War. Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl...
...resignations of Viscount Snowden and two of his colleagues from the British Nationalist government could hardly have been unexpected after the results of the Ottawa Conference had demonstrated the control which the Conservative party possesses and proposes to exercise over the nation's tariff policy. In a trenchant and bitter denunciation of the Conservatives, Viscount Snowden has warned Prime Minister MacDonald that he has become little more than a "cat's paw" to the high tariff group, that such a policy is likely to be fatal to British trade and to international peace, and that the crisis for which...
...important offices because of his ability to smooth things over. A graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University, he was Ambassador to Washington from 1909 to 1911, Ambassador to Russia during the World War. In two separate Japanese crises he became temporary Prime Minister. He was created successively a Baron, Viscount and Count and served on the Privy Council from 1924 to 1929. In 1928 he signed the Briand-Kellogg pact for Japan. In 1931 just before the Manchurian question became acute he was appointed president of the South Manchuria Railway. Japanese regarded the appointment as an effort to lift that...