Prime Minister's Address at Guildhall Banquet London, Nov. 9. 'A. brilliant review of home and foreign affairs was given to-night by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, on the occasion of the tradisional annual banquet in the Guildhall Jof the new Lord Mayor of London, Sir Stephen Killik, who is replacing Sir Charles Collett, The address, which was in reply to a toast to His Majesty's Ministers, was made with greater vigour and with a more markedly clear enunciation than Mr. MacDonald displayed last year, showing that his health had benefitted from his recent trip to Canada.
The Prime Minister emphasized the achievement of the government in reducing unemployment by nearly 1,000,000, but he said that much still remained to be done. He expressed the government's determination to solve the question of the depressed reas. and to abolish slums and over~
[crow<ed living conditions.
Regarding foreign affairs, he said shat the government's foreign policy continued to be inspired by the convietion of the practicality of a peace policy steadily and wisely pursued
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