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Show Britain Honors IMacDonald With Funeral in Westminster LONDON, Nov. 26 (AP) Funeral services for James Ramsay MacDonald, the son of poor Scottish farmer who forged the Brit- ish labor movement and lived to count the late King George V among his friends, were held today in the somber, historic dignity of West- George V following the 1931 financial finan-cial crisis.) The cabinet was represented at the Westminster services by 15 members and its wreath of red and purple flowers with a sprig of myrtle had a prominent place in the vaulted abbey. MacDonald's body will be cremated cremat-ed and his dust taken tomorrow to Scotland for burial at his beloved be-loved birthplace, Lossiemouth. minster Abbey. I Th duk of Gloucester, representing repre-senting his brother. King George VI. headed the host of notables who mourned for the former British prime minister. MacDonald died November on his way to South America for a rest Hs was 71 years old. Among the pallbearers were Mac-Donald's Mac-Donald's closest associates in the government he once headed and his successor, Earl Baldwin; Neville Chamberlain, the present prime minister, and Sir John Simon, chancellor chan-cellor of the exchequer. House of Commons Labor Leader Clement R- Attie and Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union congress, who contended con-tended to ths last that MacDonald was a "traitor" to the labor movement, move-ment, testified, to the passing of a national figurs by joining ths pallbearers. pall-bearers. (MacDonald was denounced by his laborite followers when he left the labor party to form a coalition government at the behest of King |