3 NOVEMBER 1928, page 15

Meanwhile, As, We Learn From The Paris Correspondent Of The

Times, France is anxious lest the proposed Con- ference of experts on Reparations should be controlled by independent opinion instead of providing an oppor tunity for evepc......

News Of The Week

T HE most important event since we last wrote has been the Prime Minister's speech on the League of Nations at the Albert Hall on Friday, October 26th. We have written elsewhere......

For The Rest, Mr. Baldwin's Speech Was A Beautif91 Discourse

on the need of keeping down the tiger instincts in human nature. The tigrine instincts in mankind used to be a theme of Meredith Townsend, Editor of the Spectator. By an odd......

" Secret Diplomacy " (to Use The Phrase In Its

reasonable sense and not in the silly sense of those who imagine that delicate negotiations could profitably be carried out in the market place with all the partisans and all......

Turning To The Alleged Recent Change Of British Policy -in

favour of France, Mr. Baldwin said :— " I must contradict the idea that has gained currency in some quarters, but for which there is no shadow of foundation, that we have to......

Lord Salisbury's Purpose Was The Excellent One Of...

stable by helping Bismarck to renew the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy. ' Without the Anglo-Italian Treaty Italy would probably not have continued in the Triple......

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