Show Madon MacDonald Kept inI in inI I I Power a With Party Mrs Snowden Brings H Harmony Between a Liberals Labor-Liberals LONDON LONnON July Suly 5 NEA Just NEA-Just Just Justas as a. a certain Boston tea party given by angry American colonials helped to chango the tho course of history and give th the tho wo world ld t the tIo e United l States so BO soa soa a certain tea party given by Mrs Philip Snowden wife wIle wife of tho Socialist Social Social- 1st chancellor of ot the exchequer may In after years como come t to bo be recognized recognized as having influenced the entire entire en en- tire Uro future futuro political history of ot Great Orent Britain 1 Already keen observers saro aro at attributing it- it to this Clever Ic woman the following tangible results An unwritten pact between the Labor and the Liberal l parties A union to fight a powerful protective pro pro- I tariff movement A union to change the tho electoral laws of tho the country I A cessation of or hostilities between n Premier MacDonald and David Lloyd George leader r of ot the tho Liberal party BALANCE OF POWER When the tue last parliamentary elections were held tho the state of or the thc parties In tho the h house uso of ot commons was found to be Labor seats Conservatives Liberals 59 The enormous enormous Conservative majority ma ma- JorJi had bad been swept away Stan Stan- Icy ley Baldwin Tory premier resigned I and ond the tho king sent Bent for Ramsay ly MacDonald MacDonald Mac Mac- Donald Donold to form tho the second Socialist ministry in Britain's hie history tor But MacDonald had to walk walle can- can nily Any time the tile Liberals united with the Tories they could turn the Socialists out The They had do done dono no it Jt six years ago They The could do BO so again This made mad Lloyd George a n. sort of ot Warwick whoso party part though small held hold the balance of oC power po And Ramsay R Mac and LG LG L uL G. G were wore not on the bC beet beat t o ot of terms HOSTILITY CONTINUED This hostility went on until not long ago on an imp important clause In Inthe Inthe intile the tile coal bill tho tue Liberals united with the tho Tories and defeated It It was not a a. vital ital matter but it IL was wasI was wasa wasI I a a. definite warning to tho govern govern- ment And Just about the tho same samo time Lords Beaverbrook and Roth- Roth after a thumping campaign In their newspapers forced upon Leader Stanley Baldwin the tho adoption adoption adoption tion b by the Tories of a n. protective tariff policy Now the tho Labor patty party like tho the Liberals Liberals' lias Ilas s always alays been moro more or orless less a Do part parti and ond free trade is 18 a a. tradition deeply seated in the th British heart That Is 18 where Mrs upon UlOn the tho scene Though her ler husband is a a. rigid and unbending Socialist he lIe and I. I L. L G G. are close and affectionate friends So Mrs Snowden Snowden Snowden Snow Snow- den gave a a. tea party at which L. L G. G waa ono one of the tho guests Others were prominent Labor politicians And at once things began to hap hap- pen L. L G. G and Ramsay MacDonald no longer at each other The They almost beam When Snowden produced produced produced pro pro- his budget t L. L G. G gave it his blessing in Iii one of oC tho the wittiest speeches of ot his life and incidentally took the hide off tho the former Tor Tory chancellor Winston VInston Churchill who ba had bad 1 once been his right hand man i Brings Pact P q 1 Mai i w- w MRS PHILIP SNOWDEN |