13 AUGUST 1921, Page 2

The Geddes Renaissance, the Mercantile Witenagemot, or " Business 'Bute"

as we may call the new Council of Business Men to advise the Premier how to get ninepence for fourpence, has been short-lived. We were just in time to chronicle its birth in our last issue. In to-day's we record its decease. On Thursday it was announced that further action in this matter was postponed till Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Robert Homo returned from Paris. It is generally considered that this is like the obligations in the old Bonds—" this stipulation shall remain unless John Roe shall ride to Rome in three days."