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THE BRITISH PREMIER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY.
AN APPRECIATION AND A BIOGRAPHY.
Of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. the new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; a friendly writer, has
said:-
I should put him fairly high in a Cabinet of the great European deno- erats who in the last generation or so have made the Parliamentary move- neut of the Left." He is not as elo- quent as Jaurès. but be will make a better head of a Governinent; not as supple as Briand, but quite elastic enough: a man of principle, but not a fanatic; a statesman and yet an essen
"Wichal tially unspoiled "intellectual."
he has the distinction which the country looks for in its political leaders, and on which, for all the Philistinism of our time, it puts a high value. Mr. MacDonald will not let his office down; -op the contrary, he will maintain its tradition and enhance it. As speaker he has kept his style through all the gruelling tasks of a popular leader-a rare and interesting feat. What is better still, he has preserved a character us stainless as that of Burke or Gladstone. It is interesting to record at such an hour that he was An intimate friend of Lord Morley's, later years. The two men were con- stantly in each other's company, and their relationship was not of the heart alore," but of a common and wide eül) ture, freshened, in Mr. MacDonald's case. by constaur travel and a close noquaintance with his contemporaries in European politics."
The following biographical notes are from the Daily Herald, the London Labour "paper 1-
Mr. James Ramsay MacDonald is a great platform orator and a distinguish ed writer, but when I heard and watched his first speech as Leader of the Opposi tion, I said: This House is his tru sphere." Was Mr. MacDonald made for Parliament, I asked, or was Parliament In thar made for Mr. MacDonald! hour, the dull, Hard Face House of the preceding four years, was forgotten; tho very air was Inden with the high tradi tions of the past and buoyed with the higher hopes of the future.
The effect of that voice than which. 1 suppose, there is none in public life more richly musical. And of those free ges tures, and of that rare mingling of policy and humanity, of adroitress and idealism. was enhanced by all men's knowledge that this man. this central figure, had but just returned from political banish-
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"Mae as he is called by old com rades behind the scenes, will soon have been four months Leader of the Oppo- sition, and it is not in Speech-making alone that he has proved his finess for the task. He is justly proud of the men he leads, but there are among chem many ebullient personalities," and it is to his leadership, at once tactful and inspiring, that one must attribute largely the face that no previous Opposition so small in number (only 144, even after Mitcham and Edge Hill) has in so short time attained to so great an influence. This is the more remarkable when one remembers that Mr. MacDonald is the only man who has ever gone direct from a private member's place to the post of Opposition leadership.
He has led the Party in an earlier period. On the outbreak of the war be resigned-because he was more pacifist than his colleagues-the chairmanship of He the Parliamentary Labour Party. was one of the foremost of its founders. From 1900 onwards his chief work had been the organisation of the Parliamen; tary Representation Committee, and when that body became, in 1806, the Labour Party, he was its first secretary; In that year he entered Parliament, and 1911 was appointed to the Parliamen- tary ghairmanship.
Born in 1860 of Scottish peasant parents, at Lossiemouth, a fishing village on the Moray Firth, the future statesman began work on the land at the age of 12. The vilage dominia, discerning his
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studies, and made him a pupil teacher.
At the age of 19, already a Socialist; he came to begin a period of struggle in London. He fasted hardship and unem- ployment, worked as a warehouse clerk and studied science in night classes. From 1587 to 1501 he was private secre tary to the late Rt. Hon. Thomas Lough, M.P. After that he made his living as i journalist, helped to start The Sneialist, served on the executive of "the Fabian Society, and was active in boys' clubs.
At Southampton, when he was 30 years of age, he fought and lost his arst Par- liamentary election. Leicester turned him down in 1900 as a pro-Boer, but elected him in 1900, and was faithful to him antil 1918; Aberavon returned him to Parliament last year.
In 1001 he was elected to the London County Council, where he ve special attention to housing.
In 1902 he toured South Africa and studied the after-effects of the war. The book that resulted was admitted by all Whom W. T. Stead met during his own visit two years later, to be just sine, round, and, therefore terrible. He has since visit ed India (three times). Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and "many Continental) countries. He has done much for the international solidarity of the Labour and Socialist movements.
At the outbreak of the war he joined with Mr. Norman Abgell, Mr. E. D. Morel, and Mr. Chas Trevelyan in start- ing the Union of Democratic Control. His courageous advocacy, in speech and writing, of rational peace terms, brought him years of bitter persecution, but the march of events and the re-awakening of natiodal sanity have Increasingly justi fied the stand he took...
He married in 1590 Margaret Ethel Gladstone, daughter of the late Dr. J. H. Gladstone, FRS. Until her death, in 1911, she was the closest comrade of all bis work
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