INTERNATIONAL: Ramsay, War & Benito

INTERNATIONAL

Ramsay, War & Benito

We can turn the tide of fear which is rushing in increased volume down the high channels of history at this moment.

—James Ramsay MacDonald (March 1933)

With observers in nearly every capital last week stressing the menace of today's little wars* and the danger of another conflict between Great Powers, sturdy, Scottish indomitable James Ramsay MacDonald decided that the time had come for drastic efforts. Taking with him his Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) and an impressive retinue, the Prime Minister appeared at Geneva in the full panoply...

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