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Welfare April 1924

1924

Early in the present century MaDonald had been forced by the outbreak of war against the Boers of South Africa to decide whether or not he would take "the easiest way"as many men who called themselves Liberals and even LabQurites not to speak of the Tories were doing and win popular applause by joining the mob which was determined to smash the Boers by the ruthless employment of the mighty [...] He was serving as the leader of the Labour contingent in Parliament and also as the Chairman of the Labour Party which he had helped to bring into being by effecting a few years earlier.a fusion between the economic section consisting of Trade Unionists and political workers who professed various forms of Socialism some mild and philosophical like Fabianism and others of a vigorous and eve [...] 'George that's the end of a volume the end of an epoch ' said MacDonald as he turned away." MacDonald had not only the courage to remain true to his pacifist principles but also the greater courage to get up in Parliament and move an amendment urging the British to remain"262 Wtt FARR April 1994 neutral when the resolution came up for approval of the action taken by his Majesty's Government [...] But soon after the Khaki election of 1918 Lloyd George and his colleagues who had got themselves re-elected by promising that they.would make the Germans pay and that they would hang the Kaiser began to be found out the disillusionment. began to spread especially among certain sections of the men who had fought and bled for their country and who in the matter of pensions found themselves [...] MacDonald who had foreseen the evils which would arise as the aftermath of the war therefore received a more enthusiastic hearing and in an icredeblykshort time rose in the estimtion of the working classes until he actally stood higher than before the war.
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Pages
86
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120076
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x Ramananda Chatterjee, Ashoke Chatterjee view
From Pupil-Teacher to Britain’s Prime Minister
197-206 Nihal Singh view
The Study of Phonetics in Relation to South Indian Vernaculars
206-209 L.V. Aiyar view
Food
209-212 Haripada Biswas view
Production of Sanitary Milk
212-215 S. Sinha view
Some Cricketers of Past and Present
215-222 Bimal Siddhanta view
The Industries of Kashmir
222-227 S.M. Dattatreya view
Artificial Gems
227-229 Pran Pandit view
Cotton MilLs and Manufactures
229-235 Doongersee Dharamsee view
The New Education
236-240 N.K. Venkateswaran view
“Industrial Democratisation”
240-243 A.S. Venkatarman view
The Leisure of the Child
243-248 L.H. Weir view
Spiritual Culture
249-251 B.D. Basu view
Do You Know ?
251-259 unknown view
Our Point of View
260-260 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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