Mr. MacDonald was very angry at this treatment, and Mr.
Snowden a little later moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. Baldwin calmly accepted the Motion, and thus the first day's discussion came to an untimely end before six o'clock.. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian gives a curious explanation of Mr. MacDonald's conduct. He suggests that Mr. MacDonald was determined to get in his criticism on foreign policy somehow and saw his only chance on Tuesday, as the Labour Party (apparently against his wishes) had decided that the Labour amendment should deal with unemploy- ment. In brief, Mr. MacDonald wanted to divert the first day's discussion from its normal course for his own purpose and then speak on unemployment as mover of the Labour amendment later. This, as the correspondent says, would have "got the Liberal Party out of both subjects." The Liberals were no doubt grateful to Mr. Baldwin for the line he took.
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