BUSIEST DAY YET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17081, 14 October 1929, Page 7

BUSIEST DAY YET

BRITISH PREMIER'S TOUR BIRTHDAY IN NEW YORK «• ' (Australian and N.Z. Prpss Association.) NEW YORK, October 12. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald marked his 63rd birthday in a hotel suite over 3000 miles from Lossiemouth, where he was born in a fishing shack on a bleak Scottish shore. The Premier apparently did not regard his birthday as important. Messages of congratulations poured in and he talked with members of his family in London by telephone. On receiving a scroll from a delegation of Protestant clergymen, Mr. MacDonald said: "In the last analysis, it will be 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." Mr. Winston Churchill, who is here on private business, visited Mr. MacDonald. Mr. MacDonald spent one of the busiest clays of his "visit here. It began ■with hearing two delegations, one from American .'Jewry, and the other frbm American Socialists, and ended with making an address before a public luncheon, another address at a tea and a reception, and finally one in the evening. The Jews were bended by the wellknown banker Dr. Felix Warburg, who said that' "appropriate provision must be made by the Government in order that the terms of the mandate shall be sympathetically carried out," Mr. MacDonald assured the delegation that His Majesty's Government fully intended to carrv out to the last detail its declared policy and duties as guardian of the Jewish homeland project m Palestine. The Socialist delegation was headed bv Mr. Norman Thomas. Presidential candidate in 1928, whr> discussed with Mr. MacDonald ireneral aspects of Ins visit to the United States.