10 OCTOBER 1931, Page 11

" It is right to emphasize another interesting point of

the British crisis : the fact that the Dominions and other remote parts of the English-speaking world are taking the very slightest or no part at all in the Mother Country's troubles. Not a single powerful voice has come from them with an assurance that those distant peoples propose to take their share in the ill-fortune of the Metropolis as they did in its good fortune. In this period of acute material and moral crisis of the English people the only person now in London who has come there from abroad is Gandhi, and this is sympto- matic : what remains of effective imperial unity after this quiet process of each member shutting itself up and selfishly occupying itself with its own problems ? "—Corriere Della Sera (Milan), 3.10.31.