Personal Life
A keen sailor, McDonald competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He represented Great Britain in the Firefly event. He came ninth out of 21 competitors. He later became Admiral of the RAF Sailing Association.
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters “woman’s peculiar sphere,” her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
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“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”
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