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THE Washington correspondent of the Observer sent a lucid survey of the work of the present Con- gress, which is the sixty-seventh, on its adjournment on Saturday last for nine months. Not since 1915 has Congress had such a long vacation. Last Saturday was the second anniversary of Mr. Harding's Presidency and the exact middle of his four years' term of office. The correspondent's belief that the funding of the British Debt is probably "the largest single achievement" in Mr. Harding's policy of "back to normalcy" certainly accords with the opinions so frequently expressed by the Spectator. The four outstanding events of the past two years, as seen by the Observer's correspondent, have been—first, the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance ; secondly, the Washington Conference and the Naval Agreement ; thirdly, the Irish settlement, removing an age-long cause of friction between the two peoples ; and, finally, the Debt settlement.
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