NEWS OF THE WEEK
AT last we have reached a point where it is possible to say, without the dreadful misgiving that one is exaggerating, that there are signs of general improvement —in international relations, in British industry, and in the temper with which the nation is evidently ready to face the future and seize its Opportunities. Prepara- tions are being made for the signing of the Loearno Treaty on December 1st when the King, exaetly interpreting the great importance of the occasion, will. entertain our foreign visitors at Buckingham Palace. That is one of the good signs. Others are the optimism of Mr. Austen Chamberlain's speech at the Guildhall Banquet and the appreciable fall in the figures of unem- ployment. Perhaps we may add to these, though it is much less tangible evidence, the growing solemnity with which Armistice Day is celebrated year by year,
