- The last session of the present Parliament opened on
Tuesday, and, as had been expected, the King's Speech provided only a short programme because the immense Bill for reforming local government will take up most of the time: We notice with satisfaction that in the paragraphs referring to foreign policy the question of evacuating the Rhineland was given more emphasis than it would have received from a mere coupling of it with the related problem of reparations. This emphasis was confirmed afterwards by Lord Salisbury's speech which we shall mention in its place. The Speech, in dealing with unemployment, announced the Government's inten- tion of taking "energetic steps" to make a SLICCeSs of industrial transference and migration. For our part, we attach as much importance to a reduction of trans- atlantic fares as to almost any other form of help. The cost to emigrants of assisted passages ought to be lowered appreciably, and we arc particularly anxious to see Mr. Egan's ideal realized of a /10 unassisted fare. We are confident that if the "Ten pound ticket to Can- ada" were widely advertised and talked about many thousands of young men with a proper spirit of adventure would turn their faces to the West.
