21 SEPTEMBER 1929, page 2

The Trained Reserves Lord Cecil Has Announced At Geneva That

the Govern- ment do not feel themselves bound by the decision of Mr. Baldwin's Administration to consent to the exclusion of trained reserves from estimates of military......

The Optional Clause Last Saturday The Representative Of...

Free State at Geneva unexpectedly signed the Optional Clause of the Statute of the World Court. The other Dominion delegates knew nothing of the Free State's intention and were......

Meanwhile In Washington The General Feeling Is Surprise...

Dawes has placed the tonnage for the cruiser class so high. Unless the figures are modified, America will actually exceed her fifteen-cruiser pro- gramme. It is true that she......

The Prime Minister's Visit If The Anglo-american...

thus prospered, the Prime Minister would probably have postponed his visit to America. As it is, all the plans have been made for him to leave Southampton in the Berengaria ' on......

Mandates One Of The Subjects Which Have Aroused...

and inevitably some controversy- during the present League of Nations Assembly is that of Mandates. The Report of the Fifteenth Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission......

They Will Say In Effect : " Great Britain And

America are mainly interested in cruisers. They accordingly agree upon a formula which suits them both. But though they no doubt sincerely intend that the total tonnage of their......

We Have Often Reflected Upon The 'remarkable Super-...

the Mandates System to old-fashioned Im- perialism in circumstances in which the governing Power was necessarily the guardian of mingled interests. Evi- dently there are many......