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It May Be That It Is Just Because Of The

tension at home that the Bolshevists want to divert public attention from their internal squabbles and concentrate it, in the true Bismarckian manner, on foreign affairs. A......

The Soviet Discharged An Ultimatum At Him, But In The

end refrained from sending troops and agreed to carry his soldiers free of charge if the railway officials were released. The crisis was thus resolved. But what an irony it all......

An Income Tax Case Which, With True English Per- Sistence,

has been fought up to the House of Lords, has gone against the Inland Revenue authorities. The authorities maintained that they were justified in taxing the dividends from......

We Recall The Fine Tolerance Of Dean Stanley, Who, On

a certain occasion during the revision of the Bible, summoned the revisers to a joint Communion Service in Westminster Abbey. Several of them were Non- conformists. Attempts......

The New German Government—a Minority Govern- Ment—met The...

the first time on Tuesday. As it exists on sufferance, its programme was colourless. Herr Luther wants to offend neither the Nationalists nor the Socialists. The Dawes Scheme......

The Bishop Of St. Albans Has Forbidden A Service Of

Holy Communion at Watford this week at which members of a reunion conference, Churchmen and Nonconformists, were to have taken part. It may be that the Bishop prevented a......

We Trust, That The German Government Will Not Be Too

greatly influenced by the reactionaries who oppose their country's entry into the League of Nations, and that they will be guilty of no tactless boggling which will embarrass......

The Correspondent Defines The Pan-russian Policy By...

aims at securing the recognition of the Soviet by the Western Powers while pursuing a policy of penetration in the East. No doubt Zinovieff's ruthless pedantry has stood in the......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent, Changed From 4 Per Cent.

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011; on Wednesday week 1001; a year ago 101 H. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 88; on Wednesday week......