Evening star., 1927-08-14

seven days ended August 13:
IreIand.-On Wednesday the execu-
tive committee of the Fianna Fail. the
Free State Republican party. headed
by De Valera, unanimously voted that
the as members of the party who were
elected to the Free State Parliament
should take the oath of allegiance 10
the British crown and assume their
seats. On the assembling OF the new
Dali some weeks ago these deputies
elect refused to take the oath and so
were not allowed to take their seats.
To be sure, the gentlemen so decid.
ing, and in particular their chief, had
frequently asserted that they would
never swear allegiance to "a forelgh
sovereign" but on earnest examlna-
ton the apparent eating of their own
words in the action proposed was
found to be purely illasory, phantom
feast. 1t was decided that the oatn
of allegiance to the British crown
would be only an empty fofmality"
not in the least affecting the integrity
Of the only allegiance they could
know, namely. that to the irish
nation. On Thursday the Is were
duly sworn and on Friday they took
their seats in the Dali.
No doubt the momentous decision
to take the oath of allegiance to the
British crown resulted from the new
legislation bestowing on the govern
ment strong power for dealing with
activities considered by it to menace
It's safety.
I understand that the death penalty,
for example, is provided Tor any one
carving arms without legal authority.
hn PnYNEYhI10n
party might be destroyed unless II
should participate in Parliament.
Gernany.-The eighth anniversa-
ry of the adoption Of the Weimar con.
stitution was more or less celebrated
throughout Germany on THURSDAY. AT
Halle one Of the speakers at the cere-
mony of celebration, professor at the
university, evaded the subject or the
constitution and confined his obser'
yations to the university. The Reichs-
| banner stalwarts present eXhorted
| him to talk of the constitution. When
he failed to comply, they sang down
his speech and he departed. A men,
| ber Of the Reichbanner took his place,
| eulogized the constitution, and re-
ferred to the empire as 1.-The cursed
| old regime" Thereupon all the uni
versity professors present departed.
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| Ifaiy.--TWo years ago Mussollni
| ordered Senator Cremonesi. just IN
| stalled as the first Governor of Rome,
| to remake the Eternal city--remake II
| into modern city comparable for
| splendor with the Rome OF Augustus
modern, yet without displacing or In
| juring any precious relics. In those
| two years Senator Cremonesi has done
almost nothing toward executing the
Duce's order. Why? For two rea'
| sons One Is the vast cost, sufficiently
deterrent. The other is the failure TO
| solve the problem-though all the
architects and psychologists and city
| planners of Italy have put their heads
| together over it-of building a new
Rome on the old site without ruin to
| It's precious ruins.
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Turkey.--Mustapha kenal Pasf1a
has just acquired prerogative which
would seem to constitute him the
most dictatorial OF living dictators,
| bar none. It was not enough that.
| last year. he should 'iiquidate" the
opposition by judicial murders. ban
| ishments and such like proceedings.
His party, the so-called Peoples Re.
publican party" has now vested him
with authority to select all the par
liamentary candidates who are to con-
tend at the next general elections.
This seems a little weird, but 1t may
be that only by such special adapta-