For 40 years wry, limping little Philip Snowden and tall, warm-hearted James Ramsay MacDonald were the closest of friends. They broke last year when Free Trader Snowden gagged at the tariffs arising from the Ottawa Conference, and resigned as Lord Privy Seal (TIME, Oct. 10). Now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw. he has been removed to the more peaceful reaches of the House of Lords, but his tongue is as sharp as ever. The Lords of Britain sat up last week to hear the little Viscount, stumping his canes, give his old friend as stinging...
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