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CRITICISM OF PREMIER SENSATIONAL BOOK RECALLED t ■ A Scottish M.P. and author, whose biography, "Tho Tragedy of Ramsay MaeDonald" created a sensation wheu published last year, has died in a Glasgow nursing home, states the News of the World. TTe is Mr. Lanchlan MacNeill Weir, M.P. for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, who, end of the Labour Government in 1931, was Parliamentary Private Secretary and personal friend of Ramsay MacDonald. In his book, which he wrote while his former chief Tyas still Prime Minister, Mr. Weir revealed himself as Mr. MacDonald's bitterest critic. He depicted Mr. MaeDonald as "vain and jealous, luxury-loving, deceitful to his colleapues, and forgetful of tho class from which he came." Ho also accused Mr. MaeDonald of being largely responsible for "the collapse of tho League of Nations, for the, rise of Hitler, and tho desperate position in which the world finds itself today."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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