translate English to German: MacDonald's defection from Labour and his alliance with the Conservatives, as well as the decline in his powers as Prime Minister after 1931 , left him a discredited figure at the time of his death, and he received rough treatment from generations of Labour-inclined British historians.
Wie alle Regierungen jener Zeit hatte auch MacDonalds Regierung keine effektive Antwort auf die Weltwirtschaftskrise , die auf den Börsencrash vom Oktober 1929 folgte.