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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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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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