1929 RAMSAY MACDONALD Prime Minister GREAT BRITAIN on ROBERT BURNS A man amon 78

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Great recording by RAMSAY MACDONALD Prime Minister GREAT BRITAIN

on ROBERT BURNS A man amongst Men

an impassioned lecture of one Scotsman about another, recorded 28 Nov. 1929 half a year after becoming prime minister

 12" 78 rpm record

Condition:VERY GOOD PLUS, unworn, rubs, scratch second half of 2, Plays E- quiet light swishy start STILL A GREAT COPY

J. Ramsay MacDonald on Robert Burns!
The question is put year after year, when the blast of January winds blows
into our minds the name of Robert Burns, "Why has this man won such an intimate
and abiding place in the hearts of his fellow countrymen?"
The answer given even by Burns devotees is not always so satisfactory as
it might be. He was intensely human and his genius, beating defiantly against
the bars of his circumstance, has given his critics an opportunity to blame him
and his admirers a cause to shake at times an admonishing head at him.
But the grave gathering which accompanied his body to the grave in Dumfries
that sad day in July 1796 instinctively knew that it was not merely bidding
farewell to a townsman notable in his day, but was paying the first tribute
to an immortal memory. Whether one reads his poems or his letters, whether
one searches the records left of his conversations, or studies the impressions
made by his personality on his contemporaries, one discovers a man cast in
heroic mould and formed of the essential qualities of human attractiveness and
greatness.
This is the personality of Burns, and though he was fated to play in life
only minor and heartbreaking parts and was doomed to die an excise man in a
little abode crowded up in a narrow Dumfries street, time has moved him to the
company of those rare beings who never die. He was a man amongst men.
Force of being and distinction of mind gave him and his work immortality. He
was not only for his generation, he was the embodiment of the individuality, in
[Taped from Columbia recording of 28 Nov. 1929. Transcribed by Nicole Hopkins.
58 J. Ramsay MacDonald
weakness and in power, in tenderness and in strength, of his people and he was
endowed with the genius to manifest them by an art at once robust and lyrical.
His message was not a creed of the intellect, cold and unanswerable, it
was a passion of the soul eruptive and glowing like the molten floods of a volcano.
The moral protest of "The Twa Dogs" rising up to the sublime devotion
of "The Cotter's Saturday Night" is what is in the heart of every self-respecting
poor man, expressed by one whose lips are the adequate servant of his feelings.
When Bums wrote that it was beyond one's "pow'r, / To keep, at times, frae
being sour," when one saw "how things" were "shar'd," there was no envy in
his heart.2 The richly tender pictures of humble life and service which glow in
his poems are painted to establish a claim that these lives are the foundations
of a great state. "From Scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs.,,3
"The pith 0' sense and pride 0' worth are higher rank than a' that.,,4
Here we have a deep and vital conviction regarding what are the qualities
and the virtues of personal and national greatness. It is that quality of the folk
mind and the folk service appreciated and voiced by a man who himself is a
piece of elemental greatness which secures immortality for Bums. Bums
viewed that quality in its essential contents. It is tender in its consideration and
embraces everything from Auld Nick himself to the mouse and the daisy. It is
one with nature in all its moods. Nature is its companion in love, and its consoler
in death:
I see her in the dewy flowersI
see her sweet and fair.
I hear her in the tunefu birdsI
hear her charm the air.
There is no bonnie flower that springs
By fountain, shaw or green,
There is no bonnie bird that sings
But minds me 0 my Jean.5
So also, in that elegiac lyric on Captain Matthew Henderson, he enlists the
glorious companionship of nature in his pageant of sorrow.
2"Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet," in The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, ed. James
Kinsley, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1968), I, 65. Henceforth Poems.
3"The Cotter's Saturday Night," Poems, I, 151.
4"For a' That and a' That," Poems, II, 763.
5 A slightly anglicized version of "I Love my Jean," also known as "Of a' the Airts the
Wind can Blaw," see Poems, I, 422.
Ramsay MacDonald on Burns 59
Another of the essential possessions of human power and greatness is the heart
of the lover. Burns was supreme in his capacity to love. His love songs, the
music of devotion to the divinity of beauty, with every chord of his being
sounding in the swelling harmony. Terrible are the defects of a man if the
melody of Burns's love songs is not sleeping in his heart, sad with a world's
tenderness, happy with a world's beauty, gay with a world's devotion.
His capacity to love was the inspired and inspiring inner core of his sense
of brotherhood. He was a devoted son of Scotland, his all-respected mother,
and he gave her "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled" to renew her life through
all time. When "trimmers o'er guarding her safety disturbed her,,,6 he sprang
to her defense: "Does haughty Gaul invasion threat?,,7
But in Bums the love of his own country was not measured by his hatred
of nor offense to another. During the year when he wrote his challenge to Gaul
[1795], he also wrote the lines which have been more frequently quoted as the
creed of peacemakers than any other:
It's comin yet for a' that,
That Man to Man the warld o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.8
His being, sustained by the breath of independence, ardent in its devotion to
liberty, contemptuous of men and nations who dared not lift up their heads,
saw in a world of fraternity and peace the only conditions under which the
great patriot could live and be satisfied. The challenging songs he wrote in
praise of liberty during the French Revolution rose to a musical and lyrical
climax in dreams of peace. The last stanza of the "Tree of Liberty" runs:
Wi' plenty 0' sic trees, I trow,
The warld would live in peace, man;
The sword would help to mak a plou~h,
The din 0' war wad cease, man.
International harmony is the triumphant ending of the work of the national
heroes who have struggled and the national causes which have inspired.
~acDonald is here apparently disremembering. The phrase is not to be found in James
A. Mackay, compiler, Burns A-Z: The Complete Word Finder (Dumfries, 1990).
7"The Dumfries Volunteers," Poems, II, 765.
8"For a' That and a' That," Poems, II, 763.
9This is from the penultimate, not last, stanza of "The Tree of Liberty," Poems, II, 912.
60 J. Ramsay MacDonald
Thus it is that year after year passes we do homage to one of the greatest
men. He spoke to us in song, he drew us to invite his lyrical genius, but he is
more than a melodist. The chords which he touched and the emotions which
touched them belong to the permanent joys and beauties and harmonies which
are the sources of life and of protest. So homage will be paid to him
Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:lO
or until the name of Scotland is lost and the hearts of her children cease to beat.  

James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS[1] (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 1929–1931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped to found, a National Government from 1931 to 1935.

Historians credit MacDonald, along with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, as one of the three principal founders of the Labour Party. His speeches, pamphlets and books made him an important theoretician, but he played an even more important role as Leader of the Labour Party. He entered Parliament in 1906 and was the Chairman of the Labour MPs from 1911 to 1914. He was widely denounced for his opposition to the First World War, and he lost his seat in 1918. The antiwar mood of the 1920s led to his rehabilitation in the 1920s and he returned to Parliament in 1922, as his party replaced the Liberal Party as the second-largest party.

The first Labour government—formed with Liberal support—in 1924 lasted only nine months but demonstrated that the Labour Party was sufficiently competent to run a government. MacDonald was widely applauded for his moderation and his support of the League of Nations, but Labour was defeated at the 1924 General Election, partly as a result of the fallout from the Campbell case.

Labour returned to power—this time as the largest party—in 1929 but was soon overwhelmed by the crisis of the Great Depression, in which the Labour government was split by demands for public spending cuts to preserve the Gold Standard. In 1931, MacDonald formed a National Government in which only two of his Labour colleagues agreed to serve. His majority came from the Conservatives. He abandoned the gold standard and called a general election in 1931 seeking a "doctor's mandate" to do whatever was necessary to fix the economy. MacDonald's National coalition won an overwhelming landslide and the Labour Party was reduced to a rump of around 50 seats in the House of Commons.

Expelled from the Labour Party, MacDonald remained Prime Minister of the National Government from 1931 to 1935; by this time he felt that the internal cohesion of the British Empire, a protective tariff, and an independent British defence programme would be the wisest policy. Nevertheless budget pressures, and a strong popular pacifist sentiment, forced a reduction in the military and naval budgets.[2] His health rapidly deteriorated and he became increasingly ineffective as a leader. He stood down as Prime Minister in 1935, losing his seat at the general election that autumn and returning for a different constituency. He remained in the Cabinet as Lord President of the Council until retiring from the government in 1937 and dying, still an MP, later that year.

Since 1931 MacDonald has been bitterly denounced by Labour supporters as a traitor to their cause, and he has also been seen as one of the prime appeasers of Hitler's Germany. Since the late 1970s historians have defended his reputation, emphasising his earlier role in building up the Labour Party and as a forerunner of the political realignments of the 1990s and 2000s.[3]

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