15 OCTOBER 1927, page 2

The First Meeting Of The New Dail Was Held In

Dublin on Tuesday. Mr. Cosgrave was elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. He is thus in a stronger position than he was in the last Dail but is,......

At The New South Wales General Election Last Saturday The

Labour Government of Mr. Lang was decisively defeated. A few months ago the Labour Party was so disunited that Mr. Lang seemed to have little chance of success, but he cleverly......

Preaching To The American Legion At, St. Margaret's,...

Sunday, the -Bishop of London spoke about the teaching of history in American schools, and said : " I have been assured by young men with whom I have conversed that they have......

The Issue Of Main Political Importance Was Whether It Was

permissible for a Government to take its orders from bodies outside Parliament. 'Mr. Lang and his colleagues were notoriously mere delegates of Labour bodies. So vital did Mr.......

* * • Writing Last Week On The Bill Which

the Government have based on the Blanesburgh Report, we expresed the strong hope that the Government, though unable to adopt all the financial recommendations of the Report at......

Incidentally, Mr. Baldwin Put Three Questions To Lord -...

through hiS newspapers has been persistently attacking the Government : (1) Is Lord Rothermere a supporter of the Unionist Party, with me as leader ? (2) Is Lord Rothermere a......

The Prospect Of A Settlement Of The Flag Question In

South Africa is brighter than it has been for a long time. Mr. Tielman Roos has said that he is willing to reconsider the whole question. True, he spoke " for himself," but as......

On Thursday, October 6th, The Prime Minister -for ,the Fifth

successive year addressed a mass meeting of the Unionist delegates. He said that he had gone to Canada with the one abject of exploding once and for all the insidious legend......

• It Is Believed That There Will Be Little Contentious

business for several weeks. Perhaps the ordinary par- liamentary business if it absorbs Mr. De Valera's attention will deflect .him from his purpose of later raising Constitu-......

The Presidency Was, In _fine, To Be -diazed By These

two men. The chief leaders of the revolt against this scheme were Generals Serrano and Gomez. Serrano was soon seized and executed, and last Sunday the forces of Gomez......