Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01


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The British Empire. the
Right Honorable e. A. Fitzroy. Conserva-
tive member of the House of Commons
for "a years, has been unanimously
elected speaker of the House OF Com
mons in succession to the Right Honor
able J. II. Whitley. Capt Fitzroy was
educated at Elton and Sandhurst. He
served with the Life Guards in the great
war and was twice wounded.
The retiring speaker, MIR. Whitley,
had filled the Office with great dis
tinction for seven years over most
difficult period--the period, namely, OF
adaptation OF the large new Labor
representation to parliamentary methods
and measures. Beneath an unfafling
urbanity and genuine sympathy was a
delicate irony mo, no, not safcasn1,
which hurt nobody, but compensated
him.
The speaker of the House of Com
mons lis not elected for set period.
Within the last 800 years the ONCE has
becn held three times for IL years,
twice for Is years. twice for Is years
and once for 10. and Speaker Onslnw
filled the chair for SO years l72s-6i).
A retiring speaker receives life pen
sion of the equivalent of $4,000 a
year.
AS improved at an expense OF over a
million dollars. Croydon Field Is eS-
pected to fiji all requirements for the
next Is years. Runs OF three-fourtns
OF mile are provided for. In deoi,
eating the remodeled airport, Sir Samuel
Dklt 0t 1anraAarU annnllncHn
that weekly air service between London
and India will soon be in operation.
The government has made compre~
hensive agreement with the Imperial
Airways Co, subsidizing 1t for man
service TO the annual tune Of $4650OO.
Unfortunately the long~drawn-out
negotiations with the Teheran govern
meI1t looking to the treaty concessions
from the latter necessary to the rout-
Ing of British aircraft service over
Persia have not yet been consummated
At last, however. there seems to DC
good prospect Of such contamination
Important conventions between the
British and Persian governments were
signed the other day as preliminary 10
a contemplated general treaty OF com.
merce and navigation. The question OF
aerial privileges to Great Britain has
exchange of notes the Persian govern
merlt declares Its intention TO construct
airdromes. and that 1T sees no reason
why Imperial Always should not, on
certain conditions, use them" This Il
probably the exasperating Oriental
way of saying that Teheran Is ready To
do business. to expedite which just 9
trifiing increase of the 'quid pro quo
would not be amiss. Orientals ano
Occidentals are equally absurd, but In
different ways.
Sir William H. Clark, controller
general of the department OF overseas
trade of Great Britain, has been APP
pointed high commissioner In Canada
representing the British government
IT liz the first appointment Of the kind
made by the British government, and
marks an important development IN
intra imperial relations. Its signiii'
canoe In emphasized by the exceptional
qualifications OF the appointee and tbs
fact that he was transferred from q
post of such high Importance. Under
the ruling by the last imperial confer.
epce of premiers the governors general
Of The Dominion ceased 10 he represent.
atiyss OF the British government, be-