Evening star., 1922-12-03

TIME following is brief summary Of
the most important news Of the
world for the seven days ended De-
cember 2:
United States OF Amerfea.-On Wednesday
the House passed the ship subsidy bill. con-
siderably amended. 20s to 1874. The extraordi-
nary session Of Congress ends and the regular
session begins tomorrow. If the champions
Of the anti-lynching bill insist on continuing
into the regular session their effort to make
that bill tho unfinished business of the Senate.
by the same token the exceedingly clever fill
buster against 1t will be resumed. and there
will be business transacted In the upper
house until the bill is dropped. Should there
he no obstruction the ship subsidy bill should
be favorably reported to the Senate Tuesday
or Wednesday.
On Monday the Senate returned to its COM
mittee of finance the bill proposing loan Of
$5,o00o00 to Liberia; presumably to sleep the
long sleep.
Having been challenged to make definite
proposal looking to American cooperation in
solving the European problems. Clemenceau.
in his Boston speech. suggested our partici-
patioh in the Lausanne conference on the
same footing the allied powers.
without making things appear blacker than
they are" said Clemenceau. Il tell you that
greatest crisis in the world l simply tell you
that there is nothing that can stop this present
combination Che means of Germany. Russia,
and Turkey, but France. England and America
together"
France. he said. requires for her security
either the left bank Of the Rhine or guarantee
from America and Britain.
Turkish barbarian. German revenge and
Russian anarchy-these are our problems,
said he.
Clemenceau apologized to the Bostonians
"for ever having thought them cold and in
tellectual" oh. Tiger. Tiger! we thought you
intellectuai" How could you? At chicago
five violations Of the disarmament provi-
sions of the Versailles treaty reported by the
on Thanksgiving day clemenceau visited
Lincoln's home at Springfield and laid wreath
Srief Sr f''nee Speech q ~ beaatful ] simplicity ~
When Senator FELTON, addressed the senate a
have have. beheld f lathe the shades Of semiramis. zenobia
the Countess Matilda, Elizabeth. catharine and
listened with trembling ears. he might have
discerned amid the applause their eager
The Rev. Oscar Haywood. national lecturer"
Of the ku Klux klan;. announces that the
a view to preservation of the solidarity. Of the
Protestant gentle white race. A noble pro-
annex Canada the invisible empire
Women not admitted to the klan. hut al,
affiliated woman's organization is contemplated
The field OF the klan is the world and it,
pulpit is the ages declares Or: Haywood in
eeption is that of the "Protestant-gentile white
race
must postpone to another occasion discus
sion OF the new progressive ve-radical movement
in Congress.
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Germany.-The present temporary program
of German reparation payments lapses De-
cember 81. In the absence of fresh arrange
ments. the old schedule would then automari-
cally go back into force-which is out of the
question. There Will be meeting Of the pre-
nieres Of Great Britain, France. Italy and
Belgium in London December .. at which
Poincaire hopes to persuade the others 70
the opening of the long projected economic