16 JULY 1921

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We must never forget - that ruling men have their feelings like

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other people. When they are attacked unfairly, as they think, and without allowance for their difficulties, they are apt to shcis strong sympathy with each other. Further, the...

Though we felt bound to say what we have just

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said, On general question of whether it is wise for a Prime Minister t3 leave his country and the direction of affairs and to shut himself up for weeks in some capital city...

Newspapers, as a rule, are much better engaged in criticizing

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publics affairs and the public form of Ministries than showing an anxious consciousness of each other's delinquencies. We feel, however, bound to break this usually salutary...

What enables the King to play the important and most

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useful part he does play in affairs of State is character. No one dis- trusts him. No one is afraid of being let down by him. No one ever dreams of the King trying to take for...

There is a general understanding that the chief of the

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Foreign Office should be exempt from attacks which might interfere with our national prestige and involve him in difficulties with his colleagues abroad. We have differed very...

As our readers know, we have often thought it necessary

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to say very strong things about Mr. Lloyd George, and to declare, what we still feel, that his temperament, his way of conducting public business, and his policy generally are...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE feature of the week has been the successful, far-seeing, highly beneficial and yet perfectly con- stitutional influence exercised by the King in the matter of the double...

The attack on Lord Curzon is even more unjustified, for

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a Foreign Minister in the Lords is always accorded, and rightly accorded, a semi-judicial position as the representative of international affairs.

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an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half. Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from January Let to June 25th, 1021, inclusive.

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Mr. Lloyd George next explained how there had been a

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con- fusion about the continuance of the Anglo-Japanese agreement. Doubt had arisen ESS to whether the notification to the League of Nations last July was a denunciation of the...

This plan, we believe, would be sure to answer. Millions

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of Americans are deeply interested in Mr. Lloyd George, and would be greatly pleased to see him and hear him. As to the other delegates, it appears to us that it would be an...

We are told on very high authority that of the

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people who went to America during the war, none made a better impression than the Archbishop of York and Sir Walter Lawrence. They are, indeed, sometimes grouped with the Prince...

President Harding's proposal has, of course, been received with joy

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throughout Britain. It is a pleasure to note that, according to the Times, the diplomatic representatives of Japan in London were warm in their approval of the President's...

When we went to press last week discussions were going

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on in Dublin between Mr. De Valera and Lord Midleton and other representatives of Southern Unionism. General Smuts has also been in Dublin for several days and has seen Mr. De...

• If the Times will not think it " pompous

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" of us to say so, we want to pay the greatest courtesy possible to the Government Of the United States. But there is no doubt that one of the best ways of doing so is to send...

Mr. De Valera and his colleagues arrived in London onTuesday,

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and on Thursday they went to Downing Street for a prelimieny conference with the Prime Minister. What will be the result of the conference no one dares prophesy, so strangely...

In his letter to the Prime Minister Mr. De Valera

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said that " to end the centuries of conflict between the peoples tif these two islands and to establish relations of neighbourly harmony is the genuine desire of the people of...

The North happily needs no safeguards, but here we desire

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to ,remind the country that the Ulstermen do not claim, and never will claim, the right to veto any arrangements with Ireland, outside the Six County Area, which the British...

The text of the disarmament proposal which President Harding has

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made to the Great Powers has not been published, but last Sunday night an official statement was issued from the White House at Washington giving the substance of the pro-...

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The question of the Party System is becoming more and

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more acute. Lord Derby has made a speech to Lancashire Unionists in which he calls for a new and unified Conservative Party, but deprecates Lord Salisbury's desire to drive the...

There is, we are glad to note, a growing body

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of financial opinion which takes this view. It has the powerful support of Mr. McKenna, who put the case with clarity and vividness :— "The declared policy ef monetary...

Sir Godfrey Collins, who was entertained at luncheon by the

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Aldwych Club on Tuesday, made an interesting speech on public expenditure and the necessity for economy. Especially curious and valuable was his analysis of the expenditure of...

The Eton and Harrow match this year was, if possible,

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eves a greater success than usual. Although Eton won with the fair margin of seven wickets, there was a most anxious period for her supporters when 122 had to be made in the...

The resolution which the Credits and Currency Committee of the

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Federation of British Industries, under the presidency of Sir Peter Rylands. sent to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, recommending a reconsideration of the report of the Cunliffe...

On Tuesday Mr. De Valera, accompanied by Mr. Arthur Griffith,

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Mr. R. C. Barton, Mr. Austin Slack, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Count Plunkett, arrived in London. Some hundreds of Irish men and women unfurled an Irish Republican Flag at...

On the eve of the truce tragic riots began in

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Belfast. In the early hours of Monday morning a band of Sinn Feiners attacked a party of police, killing one constable and seriously wounding two. This outrage led to the usual...

From a theoretic point of view the arguments against deflation

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seem unanswerable. After all, it does not really matter whether we give few or many tickets for a thing. What does matter is that we should give a known number of tickets, that...

The outcome of this position seems to depend on whether

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there is enough opinion in the country to form a party that is too Con- servative to vote with Labour and too Liberal to vote Unionist. If there are to be only two parties, the...

Bapk Rate, 6 per cent., changed from 61 per cent.

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June 23, 1921; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88i; Thursday week, 88k; a year ago, 851.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY,

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THE REAL CRISIS. DOLITICALLY, the country is in a very unwholesome condition. Open before us are several very important problems which the British people have got to settle....

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PRESIDENT HARDING'S INVITATIONS.

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ONCE more America has a golden opportunity to help • a suffering world, and in doing so to help herself. Once more her chief citizen and chief magistrate has decided to seize...

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WHY TARIFF LEGISLATION?

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O NE of the chief political ironies of the moment is the fact that tariff legislation is being carried through Parliament at a time when there is much less public demand for...

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LABOUR MUST CHOOSE.

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M R. FRANK HODGES has recently made a handsome acknowledgment that Labour took the wrong turning in trying to impose a policy—the policy of the mining "pool "—on the country by...

BUNKERS HILL, N.W.

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[COMMUNICATED.] [On another page appears a letter from Mrs. Barnett setting forth plans for a proposed Anglo-American War Memorial on BunkersHill, Hampstead.] T HE name of...

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or number—especially where one has left the city behind SIR,—Since

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I last wrote to you on the financial situation to seek quietness in a natural sanctuary. Not that cul- as a whole there have been a number of events, social, tivated man cannot...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] QUEEN VICTORIA, BISMARCK, AND...

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BUNKERS HILL, HAMPSTEAD. [TO THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."1

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SIR,-I[ will interest many of your readers to know that there are two Bunkers Hills. On one at Charlestown, Massachusetts, there stands a monument erected to commemorate the...

THE LATE LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH. [To THE EDITOR OF

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THE " STECTATOR."] Sm,—With the death of Lord Balfour of Burleigh a notable figure has passed from our stage—notable in politics, in busi- ness, in Society, in the street. "B....

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.

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[To THE EDLTOIL or TJIE " SPECTATOR."2 Sin,—The letter from Mr. Okamoto, Special London Corre- spondent of the Asahi, Osaka, in your issue of the 9th inst. is most interesting...

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THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Meeting in Middlesbrough on the second Wednesday in July, the Wesleyan Conference breaks new ground. This is the first visit of the...

THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. [To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sie,—Section 75 of the Constitution of Virginia of 1902 provides that "Commissions and grants shall run in the name of Commonwealth of Virginia, and be attested by the Governor...

HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY."—SPANISH VERSION.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I hereby enclose the original and translation of an article which appeared in the A B C of the 3rd inst.; this paper is one of the most...

THE PALESTINE BLUNDER.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") must thank you for your courtesy in inserting my letter in your last issue, but must plead non-comprehension as to the meaning of your...

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STRANGE BIRDS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPeCTATOR."7 Sia,—On June 26th I saw on Woodham Common, Surrey, a pair of birds corresponding in all points to those described by Lady Hope as having...

(To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—In my immediate

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neighbourhood (near Stafford) swallows have increased within the last few years. Given facilities for nesting, i.e., securing free access to their old haunts, I find they return...

(To THZ EDITOR 07 THE " SPHITATOR."1

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Sia,—So far as house martins are concerned, the shortage of swallows, which has been increasing of late years, may be partly accounted for by the fact that sparrows are taking...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THZ "SPECTATOR."]

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Sie,—In reference to Mr. J. Challenor Smith's suggested explanation (Spectator, June 18th) of the scarcity of swallows, the following extracts from an article which has recently...

SWALLOWS.

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[TO TEM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—Probably many constant readers of the Spectator who are Interested in bird life would welcome an authoritative state- ment in your...

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POETRY.

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FOUNTAINS; Pam], fountains, wave your plumes, Spread out your phoenix-wing, Lot the tired trees rejoice Under your blossoming (Tired trees, you whisper low). High up, high up,...

MUSI C.

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MUSIC IN HYDE PARK. TEE League of Arts is one of the surprising results of the musical renaissance in England. Its production last year of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Hyde...

THE TllEAT itE

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GRAND GUIGNOL (FOURTH SERTF1S) AT THE LITTLE THEATRE. COMPLAINTS have been loud against Mr. Jose Levy for swallowing up into his show (which is not, the virtuous protest,...

SOME PLAYS WORTH SEEING.

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COMEDY.—A Family Man .. 8.30-2.80 [Mr. Galsworthy's moderately successful play.] HAYNAR-mmr.-The Circle .. . . • • 8.30-2.30 [A brilliant, unsatisfactory comedy very well...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Artieles are signed with the writer's name

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

The Editor cannot accept responsibility for any article, poems, or

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tellers submitted to him, but when stamped-and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beat to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

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BOOKS.

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1.11E NEW BOUM I.* l'Ew men are better known in the changing Germany of to-day than Herr Walther Rathenau. He is a bold and original thinker, with an epigrammatic style. He is a...

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THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.*

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Ma. LEWIS MELVILLE has written an entertaining book about that strange outburst of frenzied speculation, the South Sea Bubble of 1720. He draws largely on contemporary letters...

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A PSYCHOLOGIST AND PERSONAL SURVIVAL.* THE general reader of scientific

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books has to a certain extent come into his own. There is probably no person who reads a variety of such books from the point of view of general interest rather than that of the...

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THE NORSE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA.*

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THAT the Norsemen discovered America five centuries before Columbus may be accepted as an historical fact They made no use of their discovery; they left no traces of their...

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FICTION.

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DANGEROUS AGES.* A QUARTETTE of women whose ages range from twenty to eighty-four forms the subject of this discriminating and analytical novel. When it is said that the girl...

"SOLOMON EAGLE" ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN.*

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• Books in General. Byr Solomon Eagle. London: Hodder and Stoughton. IS. 64. " SoLoniox EAGLE" has just reprinted a third series of his Books in General from the New Statesman....

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RNADABLB NovErs.—The Pitcher of Fate. By Iris Marshall. 1Stanley PauL

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88. 6d. net.)—A Russo-Polish historical novel of the period immediately following the death of Ivan the Terrible. h little less history and a little more of the romantic element...

The History of th.e Yorubas. By the Rev. Samuel Johnson.

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Edited by Dr. 0. Johnson. (Routledge. 21s. net.)—This noteworthy book was written by a native missionary and has been edited by his brother. It appears to be based largely on...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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r.votics in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] That very energetic organization, the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, has issued An Official Handbook...

Morocco That Was. By Walter B. Harris. (Blackwood.

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25s. net.)—No Englishman knows Morocco better than Mr. W. B. Harris, and his new book, mainly about Mulai Abdul Aziz, Mulai Hafid, and Raisuli, is most entertaining. His...

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University of Kansas. His elaborate and painstaking analysis of leader-writing,

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illustrated by numerous examples from American newspapers, shows how seriously the technique of journalism is being studied in the United States. We are glad to note his remark...

Some Problems of the Peace Conference. By C. H. Haskins

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and R. H. Lord. (H. Milford. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is a good statement of the main geographical problems which the Peace Conference had to solve. The authors, two well-known...

The Handy Royal Atlas. By G. H. Johnston. (W. and

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A. K. Johnston; _Macmillan. 70s. net.)—The many changes made by the war have necessarily made the pre-war atlases obsolete in respect of political frontiers. This new edition of...

My Canadian Memories. By S. Macnaughtan. (Chapman and Hall. 12s.

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6d. net.)—Canada has long ceased to be for us a far distant country. Yet in spits of this fact, and in spite of the presence here of so many of Canada's sons during the Great...

A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge. By Alice Gardner.

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(Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes. 7s. 6d. net.)— This lucid and dispassionate narrative of a great movement is in itself a justification of higher education for women. Miss Gardner...