Foreign News: Bitter Struggle

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

"Here I am in this hospital room instead of being in the House of Commons fighting. . . . That is what is worrying me now. . . ."

Thus spoke James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got...

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