BRITISH PREMIER

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1929, Page 6

BRITISH PREMIER

MR MACDONALD’S BIRTHDAY. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, October 12. Rt. Hon. Mr Ramsay MacDonald passed bis birthday in his hotel suite, over three thousand miles from Lossiemouth, where he was born sixtj-thieo years ago in a fishing shack on the bleak Scottish shore. The Prime Minister apparently did not regard his birthday as being important. NOT GOING TO LONDON. WASHINGTON, October 12. It was learned at White House today fhat President Hoover does not intend to visit Europe during his term olf office. This intimation has followed his reported intention of paying a return visit to Mr MacDonald and also speculation as to whether he would attend the London naval conference. The President may possibly visit -Mexico and Cuba. JEWS AND SOCIALISTS. NEW YORK, October 12. Air Ramsay MacDonald spent one of 'the busiest days of his visit here to-day. It began with the hearing of two delegations, one from American Jewry, and the other from American Socialists, and it ended with his making an address before a public luncheon, another address at tea, and at a reception, and finally one in the evening.

The Jews were beaded by a wellknown banker, Air Felix AVarburg, who said: “Appropriate provision must be made by the British Government in order that the terms of the Palestine mandate shall he sympathetically carried out.” Air MacDonald assured the Jewish delegation that His Alajesty’s Government fully intended 'to carry out to the last details its declared policy and its duties as the guardian of the Jewish Homeland project in Palestine. The Socialist delegation was headed by Air Norman Thomas, the Socialist Presidential candidate in 1928, who discussed . with Air MacDoifald general aspects of his visit to the United States.

MR MACDONALD’S BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, October 12

Prime Alinister AlacDonald observed his sixty-third birthday on Saturday quietly. Messages of congratulation were received. He talked with the members of his family in London by telephone. On receiving a scroll from a delegation of the Protestant clergymen, Air AlacDonald said: “In the last analysis it will he the Church that will back-up our World Peace efforts more than any group. There will be plenty of opposition, but we will win through.” The Hon. AY in.stop Churchill who is here on private business visited Air AlacDonald.

Sunday was a quiet day with the. British Prime Alinister.