27 AUGUST 1927, page 2

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Nevertheless the Wafd Party was not satisfied, and the murders of British officers and officials were exeep- tionally numerous. The establishment of the new Constitution in 1923......

The Death Of Saad Zaghlul Pasha Has Removed The Most

remarkable Egyptian personality since Mehemet Ali. Unlike most Egyptian politicians he was born a peasant, and the simplicity of his early life never left him. In spite of all......

Every Unnecessary Delay In The Case Of A Person Condemned

to death is surely a kind of torture, and no American, of course, believes in torture. Execution by electricity was introduced, as we all know, for the simple reason that it was......

The Last Hopes Of Obtaining A Reprieve For Sacco And

Vanzetti were exhausted when individual members of the United States Supreme Court declared their inability to intervene. Sacco and Vanzetti, together with the murderer......

Another Week Has Brought No Elucidation Of Events In China.

It is satisfactory that the Nationalist Foreign Minister at Shanghai has returned the stolen wings of the British aeroplane which had made an accidental descent on the......

To Begin With, No Non-legal Person Who Has Only A

small acquaintance with the evidence has any right to assume that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent. No doubt a great deal of evidence of an irrelevant and tendentious kind was......

After The War Zaghlul And His Wafd Party Conducted The

agitation for Egyptian independence with such unprincipled violence that he was deported to Malta. When Lord Allenby became High Commissioner he recom- mended the release of......

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The defects to which we think we are entitled to call attention are the fact that Judge Thayer should hear appeals against himself and that there should have been the monstrous......