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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER

Lärary, Supreme.

5, 1938.

In Book They Tried to Stop, Ex-Secretary Launches BITTER ATTACK ON RAMSAY MacDONALD

Double-crossed the Cabinet

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That Ramsay MacDonald in the crisis of 1931 "double-crossed" both his Socialist Cabinet colleagues and the Conservative and Liberal leaders is the burden of a bitter and trenchant attack, published recently by his former Parliamentary Private Secretary, Mr. L. MacNeill Weir, the Socialist M. P. for Stirling.

The author wrote The Tragedy of Ramsay Mac- Donald (Secker and Warburg, 15s.) while his old chief was still Prime Minister of the National Government. But he has found publication "a difficult and even dan- gerous adventure":

"Persuasion WAN tried first. 1

Loll Was

the publication of a book at- tacking Mr. MacDonald and the National Government would not be tolerated.

. Later, persuasion de- veloped into coercion."

Mr. MacNeill Weir states that he was threatened with libel actions and prosecution under ! the Official Secrets Act. One: inquirer as to the delay in the appearance of the book was told that "the Prime Minister | doesn't like it." "SHOT AT"

author contends, not only of Nup- pression, but of perversion of the truth:

The most glaring instance of this was when MacDonald cume to the Cabinet and declared that the Tory and Liberal leaders

the £50,000,000

cut

considered agreed upon na a

to

inadequate, and de- from £25,000,000 £30,000,000 inore, "the bulk of which must

must come from the un-

employed."

This, as was discovered later. was a tale that both Sir Herbert Samuel and Mr. Neville Cham- berlain vehemently repudiated in the House of Communis.

Equntly misleading, according to tr. MacNelli Weir, was the version Mr. Which Mr. MacDonald gave to the Conservative and Liberal leaders of

Cabinet's attitude to the Socialist

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mature a Conservative, "He never : acted precipitately; he had alway. a hunderd reagonis for not acting at

.

IN PRIVATE LIFE

He claimed, says the bitter entwy to be a mat of simple tastes and

arly habits:

.

they, he would enjoy the tural section of a little villane on the youth const in reality, he harried from 2 to the crowded brach at Brighton to ma

malie "prote along the promenade Elie gry MacDonald Wila

af all observer The real much more of the Sybarite than the anchorite.. Be had few friends, "It i dif- self at the bead had been in Mr. Macficult to think of any man looking on him with affection: It is impossible Donald's mind for some time.

10 think of him holding that affection

"MacDonald trusted nobody.

The author saw Mr. MacDonald at Downing-street on the day the National Government was formed, and urged him to explain his actions at a meeting of

the Parliamentary wards the cuts.

he author suggests that the den Labour Party next day. The Prime! Minister replied that he was returned a National Government with him Ing to Lassiemouth that afternoon.

"Do you think that I am goingĮ there to be shot at by those fellow

in 1929, just before the formation Jonx. he asked. He procceded to justify of the second Socialist Government, his decision to Form A National We are

Government,

Fis main Indletment Was against the bankers-and foreign bankers at that. . It was a bold thing for MacDonald to do this charging of France and America with dietation.

It was a gigantic bluff. He knew that he was running the risit of its being called on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mr. MineNeill Weir gots so far as to suggest that a telephone call put through to New York by Mr. Me- Donald, while the rest of the Socialist Ministers were in the gar- den at No. 10. was a hoax. "MISLEADING"

As a negotiator he was guilty. the

told Hat Mr. MacDonald

He had a feminine avidity for sean- eretly approached Lord (then Mr.)al and, with characteristic disfogal Baldwin in order to make a deat! with the Tories to keep Labour in 14y, would listen to any aspersion or disparagement of his Ministers and colleagues.

Mee."

"UNPOPULAR"

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before his Premiership! ented, says Mr. MacNeill Weir, Mr. MacDonald had becom most in- popular:

His reception, from both sides of the House, when he inter- vened in debate, was significant. It was definitely unfriendly, of-

ten discourteous, and sometimes contemptuous...

From mursing till night on most days he spent his time Bs- tening luxuriously to the "tinsel clink of compliment,“ In a sur- feit of syemphaney, the most pre- lous hours of the day were passed. The evening, too, was often spent in the role of society Hon in the salons of Mayfair,

The maxim de mortuis nit mist bon- um should not, the author thinks, be held to apply to the political conduct of a statesman. He has certainly not allowed it to modify his rancour His blographier regards him as byjnenst his former chilef,

ile went, and he wasn't Ricked out. It may be that he stepped out one jump ahead of the kick.

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Twelve girls will be admitted Bit one straight from school. They must have obtained the London Matriculation or School Certificate. They must also live within 10 miles of the hospital. There will be fees. In fact, in special cases, they will receive bursarships of £20 each.

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for a three-months the prosperity of the Dominion was taken ever-increasing production.

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Nairobi. Plans for increased whilte setile- ment in Kenya will shortly be before the Colony. A committee has been working for sing months preparing The New Zealand air mall for Bri- scheme. There is much less Crown tain, costing only 1d a half-ounce, land available now than formerly. is still larger than the air mail from The new scheme will be based on Australia, where the pustage is d. sub-division of present holdings. Australian firms are sending circulars A publicity expert has been en- to Britain by way of New Zealand aged to spread a knowledge of Ken- and back. The total cost by this ya conditions in Great Britain. Dur roundabout route is 34d. The time in the depressibn Kenya lost 200 taken is still much less than by the white settlers und 6,000 neres have ordinary mail ship.

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