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...days last week. He was not at Lossiemouth. not at Chequers, not at "No. 10" (Downing Street). To be quite alone, to escape even from familiar furniture and beloved books, James Ramsay MacDonald went secretly to a country house placed at his disposal by Earl De La Warr. There with awful Scotch solemnity he searched his soul, faced a decision which if taken would mean a final break with...
Replying for the Labor Government with asperity, Earl De La Warr said that the Treasury is already contributing "quite enough" to the Royal Vets, namely "30 shillings for every 20 shillings obtained by the governors of the college...
...have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr; and Queen Marie is of course of English birth, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...Against 495 Conservative and 89 Liberal Peers ten Socialists plus Sidney Webb now sit in the Lords: Earls Russell De La Warr and Kimberley; Lords Parmoor Thomson, Olivier, Arnold, Sankey, Gorell, Muir-Mackenzie. Four are hereditary peers; the other seven rose from commoners. Five have heirs to succeed to their titles...
...Grew restless as the hour of their august dinners approached and the Earl de la Warr, Viscount Haldane, and Barons Parmoor, Arnold, Thomson, ("Labor Peers") began a determined filibuster against the bill...