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France's Financial

Difficulties.

HERE,

THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

Soldier-Author-Editor

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923.

RAMSAY MACDONALD: WHAT NEXT?

PREMIER'S TRIUMPHANT · MARCH TO FAME

"REACHED

END OF HIS ROAD"

(By John Ludgate.)

Soldiers who have turned author: are numerous enough. The tran- sition from author to editor is a rarer and more dangerous process. Major F. Yeats-Brown became the author of "Bengal Lancer." Now he has become the editor of the new "Everyman," and has made jimmense improvements. He has perceived the need in Britain for a "news weekly”—a summary, with Mr. Ramany MacDonald was, There were in those days strange comments, of the events of the sixty-seven years old on October 12. idolatrous names like Lib.-Lab., but week. He has challenged the in- Two years ago he spent his sixty-Mosca cried to the people: "Come tellectual - snobbery of the old-fifth birthday doing difficult yo out from among them and be yo fashioned "reviews" by giving his thing. He explained to his con- separate," and he insisted that readers in a single fasue the stituents why he had been guilty of those of the true faith must have opinions of Lord Russell and those what they doubtless considered to no Lib. about it, but be all Lab. of Mme. Elinor Glyn, by causing bo desertion from the Labour He died, vouchsafed no His commentators to turn from the Party.

than a glimpse from Plagah of the then Reichstag trall and Roosevelt's

I was present at that meeting, in Promised Land. But before "New Deal" to Colombo's chance in a cinema in the colllery village of the young man from Lossiemouth. next year's Derby.

Easington. It is a dour place that had joined him. It is an oft-told "Everyman" says: "Beaverbrook the Prime Minister represents in tale: the bayhood in the humble swung the country over from Free the sad hinterland of the North-cottage between the hills and the Trade to Protection, and made the east coast. Here and there across sea; the village dominie leathering. the hard-bitten pastures pithead learning into reluctant hides; the

more

National Government."

On the front page appears a pic-machines stand up from the alag-journey to London, the fight for ture of a despairing Lord Beaver- heaps, like mammoth skeletons amid existence, addressing envelopes, brook, with the caption. "What Has the rubbish from which they have journalism, the hard struggle that ¡He Seen TM"

been dug; and the people are as must be waged to acquire learning The answer is, no doubt, "The hard-bitten or their land,

in spare time. And not only the National Government."

They drifted in from their grey, fruit of knowledbe, but that bloom.

women in on the fruit that is culture. scattered cottages, the shawls, the mer: In caps and

Meanwhile much was happening,

&

Consuls And Literature Britain's consular service, unlike, the French, has given few famous mufflers. They kept their caps on; the whole stir and ferment of names to literature. Major Yeats. they shuffled noisily on the rough great historic movement was in the deal floor; they smoked. Many nir. Fabianism, the Social Demo- Brown is among the exceptions. His father had a long and distin-were hostile. They shouted "Baby-Jcratic Federation, goodness knows what first tentative weapons, were They booed. starver!" guished career D the service. Mr. MacDonald addressed them. being forged, and into all these He stilled them. He satisfied them. things Ramsay MacDonald stepped.

under When he had finished speaking not He was caught up in the flood of an

was already way; and If Labour owed much to dissentient voice mingled with the impulse that

was a triumph of oratory. him, he owed more to Labour. He Asquith or Balfour could never was looking for a career; there it

PARADOXICAL

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HALF-MINUTES IN HOLLY-

WOOD

cheers. It

have got AWBY with it. George could have done it.

Lloyd was. ready to hand; and he became the Joshua of a movement that, be-

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narrow

took

among

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"Y. B." himself was boorn in the British Consulate General in the

Frenchman's hard self-Genos, and, as a young man, work. interest and logical practicality.ed under his father as a consular

clerk. It is explained by the nation's, obstinate aversion to direct taxa. tion and by its cry for security.

Your Daily Smile Indeed, after having suffered profoundly from two German in-

YO! HO! HO!

It was an occasion that demanded fore he came, was already begin- vasions within less than 501 An American woman has passed the passion of a demagogue, and thening to march. years, the urge

thing to note about Mr. to security, not as a marine navigator. Her ambl-first

"Giant Among Pygmies” The Sarraut Government which unnaturally. dominates all French tion is to have a buoy In every port. Ramsay MacDonald is that he is a He marched with it to name and succeeded the Daladier admin-policy; manifesting itself in

demagogue.

1 fame. Nature had been kind to istration a few weeks ago has asternally by the expenditure of

The demagogue addreasen men him. He was endowed with a ring- yet shown no sign of providing vast sums for defence purposes. A theatrical producer says that with all his being. Watch Lloyding name, with the gift of speech,

was due to his George; watch a Bolution of France's financial and externally by an inflexible his latest success

MacDonald;

Ho the with a commanding presence. difficulties. and the franc con-foreign policy which earned wife. This is the only case on hands gesticulate, the face amiles seemed the born leader of a fight- tinues to weaken in the face of France much unpopularity, but record of a man making a hit with and frowns, the eyes furh; the voice ing cause, and, mthodically as 20 the

Amrican foreign exchange which has now been vindicated his Mrs.

rings the changes acorn and ant, industriously an u beu, he added manipulations. M. Sarraut has to a great extent by Germany's

arrow, pleading and dragooning.to his knowledge of men and affairs. received two votes of confidence, recent notice to Europe that her

OUR MODERNS

The man is acting with every nerve By the time he entered Parliament but both were

AL endorsements of methods remain unchanged.

A toy manufacturer tells us that and sinew, and what is he acting? as member for Leicester in 1906,

that doll |foreign policy. which is prar- the Versailles Conference. France the kind of

cries Is he, in Neltzsche's phrase, "the he had visited the United States tically unchanged. The Cabinet was determined effectively to re- "Mamma" when you squeeze it play-actor of his own ideal"? and Canada, South Africa, New

Australia, I have sometimes wondered how Zealand,

India and by No means

secure and duce Germany to impotence by las quite disappeared. So has that the political instability leaves means of reparations and by dis-kind of girl.

the actor felt a fortnight after that nearly every capital in Europe. France facing # crisis. armament. When reparations in

meeting in the cinema at Easington. He was equipped with an orbic which is possibly, more seri-terms of the Treaty became im-

The storm that he so magnificently outlook, and, amid men inclined to rode had than that of 1926 since possible. France was safeguard-

shrieked to its Anal nee Labour' future in

still. Looking terms. Was

he was cyclone and extremely led by the Dawes and Young

glant jeopardines the

about him, he saw the landmarks of pygmies. Slowly, others strong position held until recent-Plans, under which it was sought ly. Over a month ago M. Serre, to make repayment of war debts the then Minister for Commerce.conditional upon reparation pay.

"O.K. Finally, the financial proclaimed the Government's de-ments. termination that France would collapse of Germany in 1931 get a divorce." remain on the gold standard, and making further payments impos. In plan for the necessary budget-sible, it agreed at the

"How was prepared. Lausanne Conference to forego ury adjustments The seriousness of the position them, provided war debts were ridden to-day?" became evident when the Cham-similarly cancelled. This was ber of Deputies consented to an the so-called "Gentlemen's Agree- emergency procedure for dealing ment." which was received with with the resulting Financial Bill, indignation in the United States. In the_smash-and-grab whereby it was proposed to reise but which France acted upon by cause he forgot to take the brick. Ifessional of conscience and survey it was then, and MacDonald is the

{his pilgrim's progress from Lossie-only building with arts and graces £75,000,000 to cover the national refusing to pay further debt in-

PURSUED

mouth to Downing-street. ¡deficit: and M. Daladier, Interstalments; a matter that has still

well as foundations, the only "Pity the poor married man!"; Perhaps the movement is better (building og which the architect per- uttered a grave warning of dan-to be dealt with. At the same ger ahead if the bill were de-time, realising the anomaly of writes a novelist. He is in awe seen not as a solitary pilgrim's pro-mitted himself an attractive flour- fented. In addition

the oof a woman all his life. Pity the greas, but as an exodus a strange ish, that passed here and there into to the reparations, France from alarming and persistent deficit, first attempted to surround Ger- poor bachelor! He is in awe of all urge of working quen everywhere to efflorescence.

move forward in 'n body, to cleave) His swift dominance on emerging there has been a severe fall in many by a circle of unfriendly women all his life.

the trade, exports having contracted nations, beginning with

together and advance upon some from the eclipse of the war years to about a third of the 1929 creation of an independent Po- Facts You Did Not ideal, dimly seen perhaps, but call was dramatic.

ing with one of the deep and During his exile he had hung. figures, while the last nine land by the Versailles Treaty.

Know.

irresistible voices of destiny,

back to leap the farther, and very months reveni an unfavourable The, effect of this diplomacy has

You may see Keir Hardie, then, soon Labour, with a gasp*in which trade balance of over £65,000,000, heen to realign Europe. on

After A year of preliminary as the venerable Moses, heading for incredulity was nicely mingled with although France's wave of pros-traditional balance-of-power lines, work the Italian government has the desert, with the bewildered but elation, saw that the unprecedented perity continued long after other with Italy sympathetic to Gerbegun the colonization of Cirenaica urgent, army of the sons of toil had happened and, the leap had nations were in the throes of de- many on the one hand, and the with familles from several sections following with a faith mitigated by achieved the chair of Pitt and pression. Various factors con-rest of Europe led by France on of Italy.

scepticism, desirous agel and | Disraeli. ' tributed to this, not the least of the other; while Britain looks on

again for the flesh-pots of Egypt. I (Continued on 'Page: 2,).

WAS

"Happy, honey" "Sure." "Really happy ?" "T'll say."

his career blown at about the land. Ittle from his commanding height; Patiently, day in, day out, year Henderson the thorough; Thomas, Then I guess we better after year, he had been helping to with his bonhomous touch that

ETERNAL QUESTION

many winners has

he

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build up a party. Well might he bridged the gulf between muffler ask, on the morning of Thursday, and bolled shirt: Snowden, arctic October 29, 1931, where is that as his name, ready to freeze on and party now?

giving no undue hopes of a thaw.

But as a popular figure, figure to catch the eye, to adorn That might well have been a day the platform, to be the banner of The unemployed plumber falled of stocktaking for Ramsay Mac-an army, he was still incomparable. game_be-¡Donald, a day to enter into the con- Look along the street of Labour **

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which was the stream of gold from the west, and Russia glow- The use of a gear shift lever that poured into the country, re-ers on the cast. Meanwhile," as eliminated with a anew,, pedal, presenting chiefly reparations, long as French prosperity con- through which projects a button to profits from franc specu ations, tinued, deficits could be regarded be held down by a foot to keep the and the increase of trade follow-with equanimity; but with the motor in gear. ing the stabilisation of the franc depression the matter acquired

at a low figure. At the same serious proportions, and numer- Nearly 1800 miles of niphalt and time, agriculture and industry jous Cabinets have already fallen macadem roads have been built in have always been carefully pro-jin the effort to remedy It. Palestine, the frst modern high- tected by a tariff quota system Politica, however, consistently ways in the country suitable for under which competitive, foreign provide a stumbling-block; for, motor, trafac. products are excluded.", until although public expenditures [domestic supplies have been dis- have more than doubled since

posed of. Those factors, to-1914, bringing about the inevit-matters have been allowed to gether with the economicsefable results once the effects of drift. France In 1926, however, sufficiency of the country, the the depression were felt no ar Great Britain In 1981, com- absence of over-industrialisation, party is strong enough either to pletely refuted the notion that the solid mass of thrifty, hard- increase taxes materially or to democracies cannot, because of working peasant proprietors, and economise successfally. France, their politics, rise to emergencies. the lack of excess population, ac-like Germany under the Republic, Thus, should the netesalty arise; counted for a prosperity, the sole suffers from a multiplicity of it seems probable that French weakness of which was the con- political parties, each represent party differences will again be stantly mounting; deficit. * This ing a differont interest, and every dropped temporarily in a Na was curiously Inconsistent with Government is in the nature of a tional Government, following the the rest of French policy which, coalition. Thus, political life de-successful precedents of Poin

meral, la "characterised by pending on - popu Financial care and MacDonald.

Struggle For Fame

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