Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-03

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The British Empirc-The vexatious
railroad strike is over, but now there
is the hideous threat of a strike of
dock workers throughout the British
realm.
Mr. Macdonald insists on immediate
conference of proper representatives
looking to settlement Of the Ulster
Irish Free State boundary question,
a question loaded with explosive mat
ter compared with which lead fulminat &c
is a gentle and stable agent. Lord
Parmoor succeeds Lord Robert Cecil
as the British representative on the
council of the league of nations. Lord
Robert showed himself ideally fitted
for that office. To expect Lord Par
moor to prove his equal would be
; like expecting two PhoeniXes in the
same millennium, which the poets
saw could never be. In his league
capacity Lord Parmoor has been as
signed rooms under the same ROOF
with the British foreign office, which
is significant.
hut he is aware that many have been
wont so to regard him. Fearing that
intriguing malcontents in India might
conceive false hopes from his ac-
cession to power a little before he
took Office as premier he addressed
a message to the people OF INDIA
which contained the following: wv e
have seen in our own generation an
sorts of revolutionary movements
which seemed to be successful, ana
which have broken contacts with the
past. but in the end, after much
physical suffering and the creation
of evil tempers and vicious spirit,
they have had to return to pick up
contacts that have been broker. ana
to apply the very principles they had
rejected"
In the above Mr.. Macdonald was
evidently CHANGING at Russia. NO
more than Lord Curzon does he love
the soviet government, it's works or
WAYS. He is of like mind with Mr..
Hughes as to the relations with the
soviet government and the third in
ternational. He knows all about
weird, but efficient school of propa-
ganda at Tashkent, near the Indian
border.
II was, therefore. widely thought
that, before recognizing the RUSSIAN
government, he would require from
it. formal assurances intended to
safeguard the British raj in India
from Russian propaganda.
But on February l the British gov
eminent Internationally recognized
the union Of socialist soviet repub-
the Russian government to send rep
resentatives to London with full pow
ers to conclude a complete treaty
with the British government. 1t is
said that before dispatching the note
the British premier received informal
assurances from Moscow on the head
of propa ganda. and the note of rec
ognition remarks how essential it is
to genuinely friendly relations be
tween two powers that neither should
have reason to suspect the other of
CARRYING on hostile propaganda
against its interests. 1t is, then. pure
ly a question of tactic, Mr. Macdonald
being no less Solicitious than any of
his predecessors on behalf of the i'm
perial interests in India.
Mr.. Macdonald is more than cor
dial toward Indian aspirations to self
government, but he does not propose
the immediate gift of full autonomy
to the Balkanization of India, the
ruin of the British empire and the eX-
altation of the third international.
For India matters he has taken to
counsel Viscount Chelmsford, that con-
sentative under whose sympathetic
viceroyalty the diarchy system was
initiated in India. Being in mood
Of optimism. permit myself to hope
that Mr.. Macdonald will discover an