21 JULY 1928, page 1

News Of The Week

T HE greatest event of . the week has .been Sir Austen Chamberlain's announcement.to the United States that the Government "mill be happy to sign " the Kellogg Peace Pact. The......

France Explains That She Understands That Her Signature...

Pact - will not affect her alliances and agreements and that her • right of self-defence remains unimpaired: She points out that every sovereign nation must be the sole judge......

We Assume That Sir Austen Accepts Mr. Kellogg's...

June 24th as satisfactory, and, like France, is content to have them on record without insisting that they shall be part of the Treaty. Sir Austen's delay in answering Mr.......

The Highly Original Constitution Which Is Proposed For...

the Donoughmore Commission is unlike that of any Executive existing anywhere in the world. In form it suggests the League of Nations. Government in Ceylon had come to a deadlock......

Lord -donoughmore's Commission Now Boldly Propose That...

virtually. universal franchise, and that Ceylon OAR bethine :a self-governing Colony. As, however, there is not the lea:a:hope of the many small political. groups cohering' into......

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