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practical politics, at least in the life
time Of the present party chiefs
Macdonald reviles the Liberals-and
will have nothing to do with Lloyd
George And the little welshman brides
and retorts that, on the other hand. he
wouldn't touch either of them with a
barge pole. (But he might, II he got
good offer.)
Baldwin put an end to the uncer-
tainties by motoring down to Windsor
Castle and informing the King. who was
In bed, that he was resigning.
Later came Macdonald, summoned
by the King and driving In q friends
Kings bedroom. The King invited him
to form government. Ramsay said in
effect that nothing would please him
better. He kissed the Kings hand, as
ancient usage directs, had . chat and
departed.
Then, while winston Churchill mud
died out stream on his estate. while
Austen Chamberlain weeded his rock
garden and while Baldwin signed a lease
on . London house to replace No. 10
Downing street, Ramsay Macdonald
called his chief colleagues to Hampstead
and started cabinet making.
Choices Inspire Confidence.
Glance at his choices and you will see
why the Stock Exchange Is steady. He
got In Lord Justice Sankey, the dignified
62-year- bachelor judge who presided
over the 1919 coal commission and who
declared In favor of naturalization, and
made him lord high chancellor. He got
William Allen Jowitt. the leading K. G.
In England. q $500 ,000-a-year man, who
L.. I'D y -
over TO the Socialist party. and made
him attorney general O. detection from
Lloyd Georges ranks which may be
the first Of many to Gomez.
j. H. Thomas, q bit Of Tory, he made
lord prtvy seal. Thomas was an en-
CINE driver and rose to the head of the
Railwaymen'S Union. He is a great
diner-out numbers crowds of big in.
dustrialists among his friends, has made
a lot of money on the Stock Exchange,
likes champagne and cigars, drops his
his because IL he did not he would be
branded bourgeoisie and lose much of
his influence, and is genial, wary and
wiley, and rs acute as they make 'em.
The Reds and Pinks thought they
were going to have at least one foot
hold on the inner circle, in the control
of the police through the home secre-
taryship, but the Conservative list went
steadily on. Lord Thomson, the tall
distinguished son of q major general
and himself general, was made sec
Rotary of state for. air; ]. r. Clynes. as
moderate as Ramsay Macdonald him.
self, an Irish laborer's son, who spent
cents a week on candies while learn
ing words out of q dictionary as a
child worker in q cotton mill, is the
secretary of state for home affairs:
Lord Parmoor, the famous parlja-
mentafy and ecclesiastical lawyer and
vicar general to the Provinces of Cam
terbury and York. and attorney GEN
eral to the Prince of Wales, is the lord
president of the council, which means
the government leader In the House OF
Lords; Sidney Webb, who is England's
most industrious sociologist tactician
celebrated for his "A Constitution for
the Socialist Commonwealth Of Great
Britain" is the secretary Of state for
dominion affairs and the colonies and
the leader of the cooperative mcve-
ment. A. v. Alexander, former Bap-
| fist lay preacher who fought through
the war from start to finish, is in
charge Of Britain's navy department.
Sir Philip In Treasury.
Sir Philip Snowden was put into the
treasury grim, cienched, orthodox
Intellectual with too good q brain to
subscribe TO any of the wild financial
notions Of the Reds and Pinks of the
party whose schemes he periodically
rips up and ridicules at party con-
ferences.
For foreign secretary Ramsay chose
Arthur Henderson, who shows q large
expanse Of white collar and cufi, and
who has the manner of Baptist min
ister and the appearance Of an Ameri-
can millionaire. He was a molder and
rose by way of local politics and Wes-
leyan and temperance influences tc
eminence in Parliament and in the
Labor party Lloyd George took him
into his wartime cabinet as minister OF
education and labor adviser and sent
him to Russia to try to make deai
with Kerensky.)
Il Margaret Bondfield became the min
ister Of health. She Is an old estab.
hshed labor leader who has been q
delegate to innumerable international In.
Dor conferences and congresses and who
!, was labor adviser to the labor convef-
! ton ct Washington In 1919 and Geneva