News of the Week pHE British Empire, according to its
foreign critics, is 11 usually breaking up. They can generally find plenty f evidence that this is so. It was breaking up just before he War and recently they discovered that though the far had saved it for a time the differences had again ecome too great to be reconciled. Undoubtedly the ifferences were great. Who could have thought that 'ithin a few weeks it would have been possible to find a )rmula that would satisfy Governments with such ifferent:ideals as those of South Africa, Canada, New ealand and Newfoundland ? Yet the impossible thing as been done, and the secret of it is that the common lye of liberty can harmonize all disharmonies. We have ritten in our first leading article of the most important ;Nets of the unforgettable State Paper which was pub- shed on Monday morning. Here let us take the various Dints in detail. * * *
