21 AUGUST 1920, page 3

The Prime Minister Has Contracted The Habit Of Announcing...

events to the public when he thinks fit and how he thinks fit. To do this is to treat Parliament with scant respect. We daresay that when recently he used a cryptic phrase about......

The King By Proclamation On Tuesday Announced That The...

of Wales would postpone his visit to India until the winter of next year. The Prince's long and arduous tour in Australia and New Zealand has overtaxed his strength and rendered......

" You May Hate The Word Bolshevik,' " Mr. Lansbury

goes on, " curse the Soviets as you will, but they nevertheless stand four-square for the only principle which will redeem and save mankind. . . . In Moscow thay have dared all,......

In Order That Our Readers May Know Exactly What Mr.

Lansbury, the editor of the Daily Herald, hopes may come of the Council of Action, we must quote two or three sentences from an article by him last Saturday. Describing the......

The Prime Minister Went On To Express His Amazement At

Mr. Clynes's defence of the Council of Action." Mr. Clynes was clearly nbt a democrat nor a constitutionalist. The theory that because we were said to have an unwritten......

Mr. J. H. Thomas Said That He Had Hitherto Opposed

Direct Action, and tried to justify himself for going over to the revolutionaries. If the Bolsheviks were lying in their promises to Poland, " then it is for us not blindly to......

Another Comment We Wish To Make Is That It Is

satisfactory that Mr. Lansbury in defending his dealings with the Russian Bolsheviks does not resort to the excuse that, being himself an internationalist, he is morally free to......

Finally, We Cannot Help Pointing Out That In Accepting Help,

in whatever degree, from Russia to run a newspaper Mr. Lansbury has committed exactly the sin which he is always charging against his Capitalistic opponents in politics. Only......

Curious Rumours, For Which There Seems To Have Been No

foundation in fact, were put about at the end of last week that there had been a split among the Ulster Unionists, and that a powerful Unionist deputation was coming to London......

In The House Of Commons On Monday Mr. Lloyd George

emphasized the fact that he would be pleased at any time, subject to the conditions he had repeatedly laid down, to discuss the terms of an Irish- settlement " with any......

Several Papers On Thursday Published A Series Of Wireless...

between Tchiteherin and Litvinoff relating to Russian transactions with Mr. Lansbury of the Daily Herald. We have written on the whole subject elsewhere and need not repeat the......

Bank Rate, 7 Per Cent., Changed From 6 Per Cent.

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 851; Thursday week, 841; a year ago, 94k.......