The Contemporary.
Dr. William Miller, the ablest and most experienced British observer of Italian affairs, contributes an instructive estimate of " Nine Months of Fascism-o." He does not like Signor Mussolini's principles, nor his Reform Act, but he thinks that " the present system, considered as a perhaps necessary phase, has, on the whole, done good, especially in the domain of foreign policy." " It has, by a revolution, restored the power of the State," but it depends solely on the one man, and it is not " an article of exportation." Signor Mussolini should, he thinks, imitate Cincinnatus and retire from the scene when the crisis is past. Mr. Pringle reviews the work of the Session and, while admitting that " the Ministerial Party has apparently consolidated," he is not hopeful of any re-union of Liberal members in the near future. Captain Wedgwood Benn, while deprecating competition in aerial armaments, admits the difficulty of obtaining any international agreement on the subject ; he suggests that we might come to an understanding with France to restrict at least the number of bombing machines. Lord Haldane writes well and critically on " Goethe as Thinker," and Dr. Chatterton Hill's paper on " The Rise of the Spirit of French Imperialism " is opportune.
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