Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

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Creot Rrjtain.-Crcat Britain has .
new Ambassador to Germany, to wit
the very able and experienced Sir
Horace Fumbold,
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, eminent
statesman and one of the greatest o.
British historians, is dead at 30. his
mother was a sister of Lord Macaulay.
He sat in Parliament as a Liberal over
most of the period 1868-l697, He was
an ardent champion of agrarian reform,
of woman suffrage. OF drastic reform
Of the House of Lords, and OF justice
TO Ireland.
For two years after the assassination
of Lord Frederick Cavendish, he was
chief secretary for Ireland. His Life
and Letters of Lord Macaulay' Is one
of the great biographies. Many of lis
regard his History of the American
Revolution" as the best account Of that
episode. and his Early History Of
Charles James Fox" and George III
and Charles Fox" are of no less merit.
Nor could We we'll spare that volume OF
"Interludes in Prose and Verse" which
contains his delightful youthful jeuX
d'esprit,
Kingdom of the Serbs, Greats and
Slovenes.-The world Is watching with
sympathetic interest the developments
in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes. Will the movement for
a federal organization Of the kingdom
in place of the existing "unitary' syS-
tenn subside by consequence from the
death IF Stefan Raditch, the Crostian
Peasant party leader, or will 1t gain
strength?
The funeral at Iagreb of Raditch
attended as 1t was by many thousands
of deeply grieyed peasants was a very
impressive and affecting affair. II may,
perhaps, be doubted whether Raditch
personally desired such devotion, hut
that is another story,
Or. Matchek has been chosen Ra-
ditchs successor as head of the Croatian
Peasant party.
Nettuno Pact Ratified.
On August 10 the skupshtina, or
Parliament, at Belgrade tie, the
Skupshtina less the opposition, which
latter numbering. l understand, about
40 per cent of the total membership,
continued To absent ITSELF ratified the
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then adjourned sine die (pending re-
convocation by royal decree.
Ratification was by the majority OF
a single vote The dissidents declare
the ratification invalid, asserting that
the constitution requires To treaty ratlfi-
cation o tWo-thirds majority OF the
complete Skupslltina membership
this contention be correct there is obVl-
ouslv material here for no end OF a
how-d -ye- do.
China The fifth plenary session OF
the central executive committee Of Inc
Kuomintang opened ton August 81 ana
for some days proceeded dubiously
One party vas for wholesale, uncondi-
tionsl abrogation of all unequal
treaties" another would proceed softly
in that matter. II, however, the dis"
patches are 10 be credited, the eA~
| tremists at last yielded to arguments
Of moderation and the session ended
ION August Isl tremendously.
We are told that the question OF
rehabilitation was referred 10 an
other committee Of military experts,
with provision for prompt government
action based on their recommendations
also that the committee approved the
grand program Of fiscal and financial
reform submitted by r. V. Soong, the
/ finance minister One hears with sat
| isfaction TINT II Ia proposed to de-
mobilize. within the near future, at
least down 10 maximum not exceed
ing 500 900 the troops remaining afoot
/ to be admirably trained and equipped
H. is estimated that there are al pres
ent at least two million men under
arms In Nationalist China A pro-
gram has been announced of COM
! pulsofY military training In all Chinese
universities. with a view TO an AIDE
quatA supply Of competent officers.
| Run0r has IT that Baron Hayaahi.
special agent Of the japanese govern
r1ent, who Ia dealing with the great