The Washington times., 1929-10-12
NC OF LITERARY CENSORSHIP BY SENATE is SURPRISE
N A'DONALD|NN.Y.
To OBSE: RYE
BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, Oct. II
i G.N.S.). - Sixty-three years
ago a babe was born in a
humble cottage at Lossiemouth,
on the bleak, wind-swept coast
Of Scotland.
But for the grace of in
domitable will and the burn
ing desire to aid his fellow
men, Ramsay Macdonald might
well have turned out a fisher
man or farm laborer.
Today, as Prime Minister of Great
Britain, first commoner of his land,
leader Of the working man and the
cause of international peace, the
star Of Ramsay Macdonald hangs
high.
Brings Peace Message
On his sixty-third birthday. the
visiting Premier has something t.
celebrate. He came to foreign
land on a delicate diplomatic mis-
sion. He leaves with his message
Of amity enthusiastically received
and Great Britain and the United
States side by side in an initiation
for reduction of armament. +s
SO busy has been his average day
that the Prime Minister'S official
family and his daughter, Ishbel, de.
cided to take no chances but serve
a birthday cake at breakfast today.
Hundreds of kilograms poured in
| congratulating the Prime Minister
on his natal day. 1shbel said that
she had a surprise for her father
but would not reveal what it was.
Plans to Rest
Following a strenuous day of three
revealing speeches, the Prime Min
lister planned a long delayed rest, in
Guiding a private joy-ride up the
picturesque Hudson River Road.
Ishbel was scheduled in the after.
noon to see an American football
game.
The prime minister had no official
speaking engagements after a day of
three important addresses in whit h
he told gatherings Of his hopes for
world peace as the result of mis- con-
ferences with President Hoover.
He described the new diplomacy
as the spirit of men coming together
not for the purpose of dividing the
world into alliances and groups? but
for the purpose of by their own
agreements helping the world to
come TO a general agreement that
will be universal and not meticulods.'
No Alliance
| During the entire course of the
conversations between President
Hoover and myself there has never
been any idea whatever of an ex-
| elusive understanding between
Great Britain and the United
| States. he said. There has been
nothing discussed on the same basis
with all the powers in the world.
THE understanding we have been
| trying to tablish will always be
| incomplete and unsatisfactory until
it has become the common posses
sion of all the nations on the fare
| of the earth.
we shall never be able to effect
physical disarmament until We have
succeeded in effecting moral dis
| armament.
I'VE have declared no war can
take place between US. We cannot
conceive any circumstances under
which the armed fores of the United
States and Great Britain can come
into conflict"
Revealed Method
Then Macdonald. the peace maker.
revealed to some extent how he and
President Hoover came to their
epochal agreement.
I'VE did not try to maneuver each
other into position or out of posi-
ton" he said. We tried for no
alliances and no balances Of power.
We did not sit down to play creep
ing and waiting game. We did not
watch each other as swordsmen
watch each other or as prize fighters
study the faces of each other.
I'VE did not begin by offering lit
tic things, trying to best each other
and then to advance step by step and
stage by stage. We didn't examine
statements meticulously in order to
discover how we could put some
thing over the other without his
knowing it.