Aug. 14, If anyone in Europe. really. believed that the British Prime Minister would have done any= thing to' modify the stand whick Mr. Snowden adopted. at, the opening of the Reparations Con ference: at The Hague, he must have been sorely disappointed. How it was possible to think that Mr. MacDonald would have made any change in the Britisht policy with regard to the Owen Young Plan, it is difficult tot understand, for it must have been plain to the world at large, that the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer be+ fore the House of Commons, days before the meeting at The Hague, had the sanction of the whole of the. Cabinet.. It did, in truth, represent not only. th personal opinion of Mr. Snowden, but also the considered judgment of the Labour Government.. There was, therefore, not the slightest chance that at appeal to Mr, MacDonald would have. brought about any change
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