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MR. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD DIES AT SEA ON HEALTH TRIP Sudden End Of Famous Ex-Labour Statesman
CAREER
REMARKABLE
OF LOSSIEMOUTH
YOUTH
London, To-day.
Late last night, while at sea on a voyage to South America for the benefit of his failing health, the death occurred of the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime Minister of Eng land, Prime Minister of the first National Govern- ment, of whom Earl Baldwin said, only a few days ago, "public memory is short, in politics particular- ly, and I never feel that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has had the credit given him by the country for the services he rendered to it in 1931 and the succeed- ing years. He worked himself out."
HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER, MISS ISHBEL MacDONALD, WAS WITH HIM AT THE END
Mr. Ramsay MacDonalds Swa born in 1866, in the tiny village of Lossiemouth in the north of Scot- land.
The Rt. Hon. Mr. I Ramsay MacDonald, last evening has come as a great sh phot
“whose
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Dominions Secretary-
Mac Own Party, but
ettled chair strike, was.
Skimpole in "Bleak House" he strap-hanging in the Tube on seemed to prefer large promises to way home to Hampstead, and modest performances
sisted that for the sake of his health was the Premier should accept a motor Mr. MacDonald, indeed, Ramsay came penniless to London. The story of his early afflicted with a dual personality car with an adequate sum for its struggles is well known. For more which did him some harm with his attendant expenses, there was an out
the other political than a year he existed on the nig-own Party. One half of him was burst of wrath
when the The first Labour Premier of gardly sum of fifteen shillings a Liberal and the other half Social camps and cries of sca
hon England, he was brought up in a week, buying his food in the street ist. He had a firm friend in the donor received a baronetcy- two-roomed cottage by his mother markets in the neighbourhood of late John Morley, and while there our merited in any case by his gift and grandmother who, scarcely King's Cross and the Angel at were many divergencies of opinion, of the National Library to Scotland
ZINOVIEFF LETTER. able to command the bare neces- Islington, and ever contriving, as the common denominator between
The tramway and trans sities of life, in their austere way he himself has told us, to con-them was closely apparent at the were yet able to direct the first tribute his mite towards the up-outbreak of the Great War. John pute provided one of the
resigned steps of the ambitious boy on the keep of the cottage home in distant Morley
his Cabinet ous political contrete and Ramsay path which eventually led him to Lessiemouth. At the same time, loffice.. the highest political honour. by burning the candle at both Donald resigned the
ends, he painfully acquired a real manship of his party, vehement quarrel. He denied. Mr. A. G. Gardiner has suggest culture.
ly denouncing the Government sia in June, but ado ed that the clue to Mr. Mac- Of those days, Mr. MacDonald for having blundered into the war. in August, and in the final the Campbell prosecution Donald's character may be found has written, "My first close ac *A MISCALCULATION in a picture of his lusty forbears cuaintance with the London work It is probable that Mr. Mac Zinovieff letter, Mr. rushing down a Highland glen, ing man was in the dining-room of Donald's resignation of the chair-attitude was again marked by con with broadswords out, and yells of "Pearce and Plenty," in Aldersmanship was due to a miscalculationtradictory words and actions battle, to rout a stricken foe. But gate Street. There also I met the on his part of the Pacifist strength! He has been accused of a desire to the conceit may be doubted, for first Tory working man. We gave in the country. By strategic men- modify Labours principles
he lacked the nece Highlander as he was, no doubt, him quite a hot time of it, and
tality, he sought, too late, to correct
pose them on the by descent, it was the metaphysical at last capitulated. Gradually
the error, and to the amazement of
no wish to and introspective side of the Scot began to be mixed up in the La- his comrades in the Independent that Mr. MacDonald inherited. bour movement, and formally Labour Party, who believed that he tual leader, but it ma According to Mr. A. P. Nicholson, severed my connection with the was one with them in regarding all time and circumsta where "others wield the claymore Liberal Party.”
fighting as iniquitous, he wrote a progress of Mr. MacDonald's opin he will prefer to chop logic.” He
letter to the Mayor of Leicester in
CALVINIST HUMOUR
LARGE PROMISES
was not a man of quick perceptions Yet the human appeal seemed, and with him the tangled threads that fin to carry little
humour, and he was decisions.
of reg
MacDonal
vast
which
an of slow ence the more immediate
of wages and hours upon the Trades Union leaders concen trated. After the manner of Harold
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pol
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directed the
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recruiting . It was the that which he originally held
n's task, he argued, to re
error of their elders- Defeated at Leicester in 1918, it s
four years before he could again
Donald
MILD POLICY any rat
at the com dwin's Go
for the sec
Minister, he
nd a seat. But the Parliament of November, 1922, contained a Labour Party in which the Clyde men were rated a mildly deminants Dissatisfied with the without
Lerence chairmanship of Mr. Clynes, and principles laid down
conceiving for. Ramsay wing, and with an obviou
MacDonald as a
strong man, destre to maintain peace
they carried the day and he was own ranks and to adjust once more elected leader
gramme 80 far as he
FIRST PREMIERSHIP
could with the wider desires of Par-
-Jos The reinforced Party now became liament as a who
Opposition, and in 1923, ing no time
Fortune's wheel,
out and for
Fing
ities which have
industa
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