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HERE, THERE RAMSAY MACDONALD

EVERYWHERE

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At the park gates is the begin- ning of the finest hunting country

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PEN PICTURE OF FAMOUS PERSONALITIES

in the world, and in the old days CONTRADICTORY TEMPERAMENTS

the Lord Lieutenant and his suite used to drive down to the various meets by coach.

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BUT SIMILAR CAREERS

(By George Slocombe.)

Which of the two men who met of the MacDonalds in the Socialist

under the high, painted celling of International and the Turatie in It was through this gap that Mussolini's vast room in the •Pa his own Italian party. Lord Spencer, looking out from lazzo Venezia, the Italian dictator He preached revolution by vio- one of the windows, saw, what he or the Scottish democrat, was the On the eve of the war he led the

lent methods, thought was a brawl taking place In the road that runs through the

first to ponder the Ironic destiny revolutionary majority of the park. The "brawl" was the mur which at last permitted their par- Italian Sociallat Party, while in der of Lord Frederick Cavendish allel paths to intersect?.

Great Britain MacDonald stood us and Mr. Burke:

No more dramatic encounter has the unchallenged champion of a been seen in Europe for years. I pledged to the mildest of social majority in the Labour movement witnessed Mussolini's first meeting reforms.

Your Daily Smile.

Tale of the Day,

with M. Poincare and Lord Curzon.

It was a stiff, as coldly courteous

Worlds Apart.

Even then, in mentality as well

"I doot Donald's broken oot again,"

"How due ye think that, Rab?" such pronounced mutual antipa-worlds apart. *Last nicht he was lecturing tao thies of origins and temperament The war was to separate them

as a meeting between three men of as in manner, the two men were

ja crowd at the cross on the evils jo' strong, drink."

even more, At Its outbreak so diverse, could possibly be.

Mussolini opposed the war, opros This first contact between Mus-ed Italian intervention, and called solini and Ranfsay MacDonald for a revolutionary uprising in all nae should have proved to each a re- countries to withstand it.

"Am pleased - tae hear ở that; {{t's a-guld sign.”

“Aye, but ye see there was crowd!"

This Depression.

*

as pre-

jaw. In his manner, his speech, policy succeeded, he returned from and his deportment there are no, his military service on the Italian full determined and abrupt His moved the war, the obscure if vocifer concessions to grace. His stride is front to find himself, during the

four years that immediately follow ments are quick and vigorous, His barshly chiselled Roman head is ous leader of a minority. Mac- as bald and direct as a bust in Donald's own position in politics bronze. His glace is challenging during the same years was equally and sardonic, his eyes opened wide inconspicuous. They were, both re in a bold stars.

turned to active politics, the one to

velation of a character hitherto Within six months he had chang unsuspected. Their temperaments, ed his ground. He became as their talents are mutually contra-violent an interventionist A Commercial traveller was dictory. The one is like, atéel, the viously he had been a violent dis- working in a new district, and or other quick-silver. The one hard, ciple of the attitude proclaimed by ders were few and far between practical, energetic, with a Latin Lenin. He declared his views at Entering an establishment, he pre- logic, an Italian cynicism, an Ita- congress of the Italian Socialists, sented his card, only to be told lian subtlety. The other facile, was outvoted and expelled from la week, Inclusive of rates. But there was really nothing in kla volatile, alternately swayed by the the Party, when the plan for enlisting privata

line that was wanted.

twin" forces that dominate thei With French Government funds enterprise is analysed it will be "Will you permit me to show you Scottish mind, a mercurial mysticonveyed to him, Ironically en- found that the rent of houses to be a few of our leading lines?" beg-cism, a capricious stubbornness,ough, by two French Socialists, bullt under the arrangement with sed the salesman.

one of whom was Marcel Cachin, the building societies is not. Ilka-| "No, sir," was the reply. "We Complete Physical Contrast. the present leader of the French to be less than twelve shillings really cannot spare you the time at The very physical contrast be-Communist Party he founded the a week. There is therefore no de- present."

tween the two statesmen, is aut Popula d'Italia, the newspaper finite guarantee that the Bill will "Well, sir," persisted the-sales- ficiently striking.

which was to drive Italy into the produce in the first instance houses man dejectedly, "would you mind - The Italian is short, square, war, and which is to-day the organ sufficiently cheap, in sufficient opened my bag here and took a muscular, with immense breadth of of the Hallen Fascists. While the British Governments quantities, and at a sufficiently re-look myself. I haven't seen 'em shoulder and immense breadth of But if Mussolini's Interventionist Housing Bill, which has been pass-gular rate to meet the needs of the for nearly three weeks." ed in all stages by the House of

present housing problem. The Commons, contains many admir- more this question is studied, the Domestic Dialogue. able features, the solution of the more attractive becomes the aug.

She: This cookery book is just housing problem may be more ade gestion of forming a public utility of mistakes. quately reached by the Committee corporation pledged to a large and

He: I know, I've tasted 'em. which has been set up under Lord defalte programme of house Hint For Bachelors. Moyne to study the possibilities of building, co-ordinating all forms of reconditioning as an aid in slum house building for the working A psychologist states that small clearance and of enlisting public classes, cooperating closely with women are the better tempered. utility societies on a large scale the building industry and with all short wife and a gay one. In the building of working-class bodies, whether municipal or pri-

His speech is metalife and bru-power, the other to leadership, In tal. He has a robust scorn of 1922 houses. The time has come to vate, concerned with: building, and A Bad Start abolish the subsidy to municipal ananced by private capital cheaply

But whereas Mussolinf seized the empty rhetoric. His proclamations "What made you quarrel with have a Roman simplicity of thought dictatorship at the head of an army building and to concentrate public

Claude?" assistance in the form of subsidies Government guarantee, The Min-

provided

Some in return for

and style, The slow, melodious ac of young anti-Socialist Italians, "Well, he proposed to me again cents of the Scottish democrat, the most of them new to the political upon slum clearance. Indeed the ister has frequently declared

last night.". Labour Party's refusal to serve up that, he would In no circum

vague, sentimental perorations, the scene, Ramsay MacDonald, after "Where was the harm in that?" dreaming eye, the silver hair, the eight years of astracism, returned on Lord- Moyne's Committee is a stances replace a direct subsidy by "My dear, I had accepted him the handsome profile of the British to the leadership of his party-and particularly foolish example of

night before.” an indirect subsidy; but it may

Prime Minister found in Eome a ultimately to the Premiership-by how political theory may obscure be hoped that this does not mean

man whom the Caesars knew.

the votes of the Clydeside Socia practical policy; for the. refusal is

Facts You Did Not

lists whom he was afterwards due to the obstinate assertion that the ruling out of any extension of the guarantee principle. There

Know. nothing can produce houses to let

dramatically to disown, are great difficulties, no doubt, in cheaply except subsidized munici devising a practical scheme for the pal enterprise. Nevertheless the formation of such a corporation leather exporting country Germany is the world appointment of the Committee is a Yet nothing would appear to offer 2 welcome proof, that the Govern ment are ready to welcome friend- triple object of a sound housing po-air space to prevent an iron

a better prospect of achieving the A new flatiron stand has ly criticisms of their present scheme, which proposes to rely more public economy, and an ade-

licy-namely, better employment, heating a table. upon an intensification of the use quate supply of cheap but good

houses.

Fairer Kashmir.

*

Democratic

Origin.

The Drift from Democracy."

Yet dissimilar as the two men leading temperament, method and purpose, MacDonald's steady drift away

are, antipathetic as they are in

In the years that followed Mr.-

Portugal has joined the list of nations adhering to the Interna tional trade mark agreement.

of the Act of 1930 for slum clear- ance and upon an arrangement con- cluded with the building societies for new,building,'” In addition' », to

An electric motor operates a new any unsubsidized building - which] may be carried out by local au- A year has passed since publica-portable motion picture camera in thorities. The objects of their potion of the Report of the Commis- tended for airplane" photography. |licy must be to achieve what Hous- ston appointed - by the Maharajah ing Acts so far have signully failed of Kashmir to investigate the grie

their careers have had significant from the democratic origins of his

over-stern blood of land-hungry pea-llnl, more boldly, more logically, a double points of contact. They have the Party Brought him inevitably, In same democratic origin. The 1931, to the attitude that Musso- sants courses in the veins of each assumed in 1914. Strangely en- of them. R

ough, neither man is quite certain Ramsay MacDonald" was born in his heart of his own philosophy, nearly 67 years ago, the son of Mr. MacDonald, wither his charac farm labourerät Lossiemouth, teristic lack of lucidity of-mind, Benito Mussolini was born nearly til proclama himself ay So- 50 yrs ago of robust républicao cialist. ** blacksmith "father, and a peasant But Mussolini, whose early So mother at Forliss

clalism has proved, an admirable Bath

life

and historical training for his Ister- teachers

F'grew to

career, enabling him, to regard, other famous - apostates--Aristide Briand, Millerand, Viviani, with a cynichi understanding but also, the feye of disillusionment is at I suspect, more of a Socialist at lat haurt than MacDonald A

the Moslem Hority in Bond Kashmir and the "remarkably abla went Brahmin amous throu”hout

Bot

to achieve namely, slum clearance vances of his Moslem bubjects, the new Prime Minister has made on a really substantial scale and Since then his new Prime Minister, an excellent beginning. Some Socialism through

Badicallem the provision of houses within the Colonel Colvin, has been engaged time, however, must pass before means of the more poorly paid in carrying into effect the main re the full effect of these reforms in cialism, bec wage earners. As regarda slum commendations of the Report; and visibi Their success will sltim-philosophy clearance, nehody can really tell a study of his administrative re-ately depend upon the relations be. Both excapt by trial, how much concen-forma shows that several notable tration upon the Act of 1930 will causes of complaint have alre effect. The Minister of Health has been removed. Mosques which announced his determination to re. generations had been [quire local authorities, to make, a lar, zines have been or are

hew morvey of alum property in stored to the Hob their areas, and to prepare plans munity, The burd |for dealing_with all such proper ing tax has bee

Hies, whether by clearance or by re- inequaliti conditioning, upon a definite time)Measures

| schedule. "It may be hoped that corruptio

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[ter results than in the past

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The Minlite

relied greatly"? upo building by local

With

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