The Archive · 1929

The New Labour Cabinet

"It is best to begin with tittle aversion" says Mrs, prop. Whether the Conservative t home got over their Bodleian library. his coat-tail to the prospect of a pockets'

Perhaps the most highly teemed of the new Premier's po: sessions are the volumes on ti history of Windsor exstl sented to him by the King th Queen ae gifts throw a kizully: light om the court they had done de me the borals for splitting the vote the Cor tive eh; eS er whether the now discover and thoughtfulness of the Ki A mat usually experience, time alone The Times" of state befor attains to the dizzy height of the Premiership. Mr. Ramsey Donald a he unprovocative"; "Th nent of moderates and gradualists need not inspire alarm", adds the "Daily Telegraph". On the other hand, the colossal programme of reform with which net Coming, for the first tne, late balinate tele a with" his Majesty Mr.

Donald must have felt em-Darrassed and, perhaps, subconscious impres:

leader of the forces he was not as welcome a Mi ter as the head of another pa would have been, These _personal gilts, first from the Kiag the Labour party went to the country still stands and contains much which might very well inspire alarm—for example, "the establishment of adequate provision for unemployed workers"

transference to public ownership of the coal, transport, power, and life insurance industries; "transference of land to public ownership", and many

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