1 FEBRUARY 1930, page 2

The' Optional Clause On Monday The House Of Commons Agreed

without a division to the Government's motion for the ratification of the Optional Clause. This was after an amendment moved by Sir Austen Chamberlain had been rejected by 278......

Australian Labour Mr. Scullin, The Australian Labour...

trying to recall Australian trades unions to constitutional methods. On January 23rd he rejected certain proposal s of the Australian Labour Party Conference which had urged him......

There Had Been Ugly Rumours Of Military' Juntas, And In The

end, General Primo de Rivera committed PalitiCAL hara-kiri by stating his intention of defening to the wishes of the seventeen . highest officera of the ArMy and Navy. This -......

India Last Saturday Lord Irwin Made An Admirable Speech...

ought to have put to shame those who have misrepresented, not only his previous statements, but the whole situation in India. Lord Irwin said that his phrase of October 31st, "......

We Admit, However, That Sea Law Is An Exceedingly Delicate

affair as the policy 'of the United States towards it is in suspense. At least America has not yet adjusted herself to either the League or its consequences. It is argued that......

The Decisive Factor Was Not So Much The Latent Dis-

content in the Army as the proved . failure of the mer- cantilist economic policy- 7 -protection of profiteering industrialists ad absurdum, which itself made nonsense of the......

The International Drug Traffic The League Of Nations...

has been sitting for some days at Geneva, has been the scene of extraordinary disclosures. Russell Pasha, of the Egyptian Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, has been able......

No Doubt Compulsory Arbitration Is Open To The Objection...

its results may be very inconvenient; but the same objection can be raised against the decisions of any Court of Law. Sane men do not condemn our own Courts because a judgment......