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• The New Ruler Has Evidently Done His Best To

make - a clean sweep of the Barakzai dynasty, and he has also rounded up most of the Sirdars as well as the Notables who had hoped to secure their position in the shadow of......

Opinfon Is Still Divided As To Whether The King Or

Genera Zivkovitch is the real Dictator in Jugoslavia. Probably, as_ in Spain, it . is six of one and half a dozen of the other. But there can be no quastion that a strong hand......

One Hundred And Two Robberies And Four Murders In One

week have made the Chicago police take sweeping action. Last Sunday' night they arrested three thousand people. " Never mind ' injunctions. If you are barred, grab an axe and......

There Have Been Many Rumours Lately Of A Quarrel Between

Stalin, Secretary-General of the Communist Party in Russia, and Bukharin, who is the nominal head of the Communist International. It has even been said that Bukharin has been......

Yet A Third Amir Has Mounted The Throne In Kabul,

a development in the internal affairs of Afghanistan which should refute once and for all the silly notion that British influence had anything to do with the recent rebellion.......

The Young Nation In A Hurry Is A Common Phenomenon

nowadays, and there need be no surprise at the crisis in the relations of Great Britain and Iraq. The Iraqi Cabinet has resigned as a protest against the British bovernment's......

More Valuable In The • Long Run Than The Fireworks

which May or may not go off at meetingS of the League Council, more valuable, certainly, than the set-piece of the Aisenibly, is the unobtrusive work of the various technical......

. On Tuesday Parliament Reassembled After The Recess. The...

Minister met very satisfactorily Mr. Thurtle's request for a day to discuss the. Channel Tunnel Scheme. Although .he was not able to grant a day, he admitted that the subject......