11 AUGUST 1923, page 2

Other Incidents In The Controversy To Which We May Refer

are the letters published by the Times from Mr. Wickham Steed and Mr. J. M. Keynes. We had supposed that Mr. Steed, when he was Editor of the Times, had been on the whole......

We Venture To Congratulate The Social Democratic...

sure how our congratulations will be received. On Monday, Mr. G. M. Bell, the Vice- President, moved a resolution urging all Socialists to demand a democratic army for national......

Mr. Harding Was Often Described As " A Plain American,"

and the phrase may be taken to mean that, without knowing much of the outer world, he had all the good qualities of a man who loves his own country and works for it and his......

An Objection Has Been Raised By The British Government To

the appointment of M. Rakovsky as Soviet • repre- sentative in this country. We cannot see how the Government could have acted otherwise. It is one of the first 'principles of......

The New President Of The United States, Who Was...

and therefore becomes President as a matter of course, is Mr. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts. Mr. Coolidge's name was hitherto not widely known, as there is a tradition: n......

There Have Been Strong Rumours During The Week That Mr.

McKenna will not, after all, become Chancellor of the Exchequer. It has been pointed out—though the statement may have been made with a certain guile— that the banking interest......

It Is With The Deepest Regret That We Record The

death of President Harding, which occurred quite unexpectedly at San Francisco on the evening of Thursday, August 2nd. In spite of his serious illness the doctors had never been......

When As Governor Of Massachusetts He Broke The Great Strike

of the Boston police, he took the view that the police were under a special contract, quasi-military in nature, and therefore under• a peculiar obligation to the State, and that......

As A Journalist Mr. Harding Worked His Way Up From

the bottom as a handy boy (so we read in the Times) who did a little of everything—cleaned the office, set the type, and collected subscriptions and advertisements. . At the age......