DECREES OF FATE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20420, 15 December 1931, Page 15

DECREES OF FATE.

»WE MINISTER'S DUTY. RAMSAY MACDONALD'S VIEWS. j* ' inOK OCR OWK COBEMPOHMHT.) LONDON, November 5. !"* ?ka Prime Minister, Mr Bamsay Mac- • when on his way to Lossiemouth. ? fca short holiday after the general addressed ft crowd of some | gjhsand* from a luggage barrow outfhe Elgin railway station. % jif'l am very tired," he said. "It is I '"Wy well for you to congratnlhte If gnelves that during the last week or Hi pmriS.H single vroxji- has been said ,: /;jjl6Sgdeßt my Government, but whilst the traditional. I. have been in the I-' ■ "We halrSßlreat tiine, but no i nan would be isoest who occupies my ' * position who dS$ not confess he was 1 vej proud 4t the result. A House of I (Sonnou has been elected, the like of j *iieh has not existed in the history of ! m BurUnmeot before. , "JKp taw.a unanimity which i? most but at the same tiine a IBility ia placed upon- us ) very sobering indeed, le election was not the (ion's troubles. You haVe Tor peace but for strenuday, week after week, greater and greater and complicated problem's to ; can say to you is that and myself pledge ourng more than this —that best to face these probiry to carry them to a an Autocrat. your forbearance and Bome was not built in a his nation be restored to t position among the world in a day or in a 11 have to face things in, and in the course of may very well be baffled, in, but we shall attack I again until at last we which will be a satisfacnment, in spito of itk ritv —and really it was a j House of Commons yesmagic wand. I hop®. ; X nope it has ability; courage and determinate are the qualities, hunot magical ones, which nation back to its old r, never can be an autogo as far in that dirucinke your hair stand on e end be has got to reie has to govern m «y> publio opinion, and the mons and the House of an easy instrument to * to feel that something being respected, and it a tool in the hands of roup of men. le who rules best iules on the mind of the Houso id the mind of the connnot forget these things Nevertheless, we are country's welfare, arm s I am concerned, will ng I shall keep in front ib crowd for their wel'Donald continued: 'ln s we are all Jock Tr.tnI have ruu about your neither you nor T ever cing each other from a But fate has »ccn to- decrees of fate will be Whether one is UP or art will always go back ilk o' Mora' where one s eeping, and where one s rtan Upbringing. lid was given three welnative Morayshiro :it ti the note of neighbourlent all tho time, en ;ind old women who, ;u's schoolboy grasped inquired anxiously after lie Prime Minister smiled "I'm uae sae bad,".he iping into dialect, husjastie crowd which t Lossiemouth the Priuie of his upbringing, no pampering in those . "We had magnificent

a good healthy life, pleasant, companions, and lots of romance. Wo were launched into the groat outside world with the very best qualities, if we had no riches at all. I hope the young people in front of me are being brought up in the same way—no luxuries, but a hard, stiffening life. "You may grumble just now, but when tho time comes for you to go out and make your way in the world you will look back on your upbringing with gratitude to your parents and thankfulness to God." Then with Miss Ishbel at his side tho Prime Minister forced his way towards his car. Hundreds of young hands grasped ropes which had been fixed to the front and drew the car through the flag-bedecked town to tho Hillocks, a plain Btono house smothered in bunting for the day. ' The Prime Minister stepped oft to the verandah, immediately in front of which, broom and whins stretch away to meet- the sea. Ho drew in a-great breath of salty air. "Homo at last," ho said.