Mr. MacDonald Left Pension Untouched
£7,000 ESTATE MIGHT HAVE BEEN £250,000 Mr Ramsay MacDonald never touched the £2,000 pension to which he was entitled as an ex-Prime Minister. When his will is proved shortly it will reveal that he died worth £7,000 —a comparatively poor man. Yet he could have been worth £250,000. Several times he refused offers of nearly £40,000 for his life story. Apart from this, he turned down offers totalling many thousands of pounds to write for British and American jolrnals. * ‘Ramsay MacDonald was entirely unattracted by money, ’ ’ Mr W. Blackwood, one of his closest friends, told a reporter. “When he received these lucrative offers, his comment to me was: ‘I don’t like cashing in on the circumstances that I happened to be Prime Minister during a troublous period.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 49, 28 February 1938, Page 10
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