The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-04
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
snlisbury's AngIo-American Policy
to Undergo No Change,

snlisbury's AngIo-American Polio.
to Undergo No Change.
| LONDON. Nov. sit is quite certain
that the Anglo-American trend of Lord
Salisbury's policy will undergo no mod
ification with Lord Lansdowne at the
Foreign Office Indeed, IL Lord Lansdowne
had had to be shelved from the Cabinet
because Of War Office blunders it is
probably to the Washington Embassy
that he would have gone by his own
choice and fitness.
London began the week In a frenzy and
ends it in something like political col
lapse. The one is generally the sequel
of the other. Over the frenzy Of last
Saturday, Sunday and Monday the mad
and unchecked crowds in the streets, as
the Civic Imperial Volunteers mad. their
way to prayer at St. Paul's and the junk
etings in the city, and the unbridled Ii
cense of old and young in the streets
after dark-over all this serious minded
people in the press and out Of 1t shake
their heads. Far better" says the
Spectator today, that our people should
remain always under the gray shadow
left by Puritanism than that, emerging
therefrom. they should be known In fu-
ture, on high days. for combination OF
the romp OF an elephant with the leer
Of satyr;" and reading the comments
Of journals in Paris, Vienna and Berlin,
one realizes that the British people are
not adding to the respect in which they
are held among the nations by the sub
stitution of rowdyism, drunkenness, pro-
miscuous kissing and bladder beating for
orderliness and self-restraint, the repu-
tation for which has in the past helped
tc make England the envy Of Continental
peoples.
1t is not surprising that even the
lethargic War Office should this morning
feel moved to circulate among journalists
the vigorous appeal from General Roberts,
in view of the early return Of the regular
troops from South Africa, begging the
British public to refrain from tempting
my gallant comrades" but rather to laid
them to uphold the splendid reputation
they have won for the imperial army.
Throughout the war, says General Roberts.
not single serious crime on the part OK
the vast British soldiery has been brought
to his notice. officers and men have borne
themselves like heroes on the battlefield,
and gentlemen on all occasions. English
men at home must live up to that high
record on their part, in the welcome home,
It is the one-tenth, mostly the voteless
and irresponsible tenth. that does the mis-
chief, and the prime fault lies at the doors
of that official ineptitude and fncompe-
tence, other phases of which brought
England her dark days Of last December
and January. 1t is all part Of what was
once called an "opera-box view OF war, q
view which the War Office and the police
SO far share as to leave the public ex-
posed to such disgraceful scenes on every
occasion of celebration.
The political collapse with which the
week closes seems the natural outcome OF
all this. II there was one Minister singled
out for public contumely because Of his al
legged official ineptitude displayed in the
early stages OF the war it was Lord Lans-
downe, the Secretary Of State for War.
Even the leading ministerial journals
marked him down as the man who must go,
and at once Lord Salisbury. with his ira
ditional magnificent disregard for fieeting |
public judgment, far from degrading Lord |
promotes him to his own office |
Of Foreign Secretary, the Office Of greatest |
responsibility in the Cabi- |
net. To the vacant portfolios of the army |
and navy, which prominent journals and |
public men outside the Cabinet have de-
clared must be filled by men of supreme |
business capacity and great force of char
acter, he appoints two sprigs Of nobility, |
one of them his own nephew; young men
who as under secretaries faithfully echoed
he views and decisions, in one case Of
Lord Salisbury himself, in another of Mr..
young men who have had
small chance to prove their capacity. This
S Lord Salisbury's answer to the cry for
decisive administrative reform. and rank
md file M:nisterialists up and down the
country, headed by Lord Salisburys own
avorite journal. the London Standard"
IRE plainly telling him that he is sorely
empting the providence that watches over
lin. The admiralty will keep we'll in the
Nd permanent official ruts.
The following statement is going the
ounds of London political circles today
t seems incredible: 1T is likely that be-
ore the Irish party meets at Westminster
resolution Will be submitted for the ex-
ulsion of Mr.. T. Healy. because on various
ccasions he has not adhered to the condi-
ions of membership. namely. the pledge
inding him to act in strict concert with
is colleagues. and to take no parliament
ry steps inconsistent with such action
ir. Healy's action on the tithes bill. in
'hich he advocated acceptance after
mendment, is quoted as an example Of his
eparate and therefore hostile action.