Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20

the world for the seven days
i ended october 19.
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THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OF NATIONS-Singing its swan song
| in its October issue, at the end of its
| l27th year, the Edinburgh Review, most
| famous of quarterlies, Of old the grand
champion Of Whiggism, passed into the
populous limbo of dead periodicals. OF
| its famous contributors Macauley was,
! perhaps, the most Serviceable.
This is the burden of the swan song:
| Modern readers are not willing to wait
| q quarter Of year for observations on
| life, letters, history and society" But
perhaps the real diflculty was that
the old magazine became hide-bound
| by its traditions, was unable to adapt
| itself to the demands and needs of a
new age. The Quarterly Review, only
seven years younger, fingers on; but
one seems to hear the inviting knell."
In this country we have several youth
| full quarterlieS with a certain look of
lustihead: no doubt cherished and
pampered by subsidies.
During the past week the R-101, the
great new British airship, made her
| first two trial fiights-brief ones-with
entire success.
The Australian Labor Party won a
lions held on october IL. With the
returns not yet all in, it is seen that
the makeup of the new Canberra
Parliament will approximate the fol-
lowing: Labor Party, A.; Nationalist,
| IS; Country Party, 10; scattered, B..
| The makeup of the late Parliament,
| in which the Nationalist and the Coun-
| try Party were allied, was as follows:
Labor Party, 80; Nationalist, 80; Coun-
try Party, Is. The Nationalist Coun-
| try Party coalition has held the power
was arbitration Of labor disputes. The
Nationalist Country Party coalition
stood for devolution of arbitration in
labor disputes completely to state courts,
except for shipping disputes, over
which the Federal Arbitration Court
should retain jurisdiction. The Labor
Party stood for no abatement of the
Court. 1t is presumed that James
Henry Scullin, leader of the Labor
Party, will be the next prime minister.
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GERMANY.-The dispatches convey
the impression that the Antonine asser-
ton is being falsified In the case of
complished was not inferred with his
very bones"-Quite the contrary. At
any rate, faction within the govern
ment coalition (Which includes all but
the extremists) appears to have ceased,
and 1t seems correct to say that Strese-
mann from his grave exercises an in
fluence toward genial acceptance of the
Young plan and the general policy of
Cancellation associated with his name
more powerful than could be exercised
by Stresemann still the living target
of misprision and detraction.
But premature counting of chickens
is to be eschewed. There seems little
doubt that the Nationalist will get Q
popular referendum on their liberty
BILL" which proposes reputation of the
war-guilt clauses of the Versailles
treaty and rejection of reparations set
Elements deriving sanction therefrom-
ie., rejection of the Young plan. In
order to a referendum an appeal is re-
quired subscribed by 10 per cent Gin this
instance, about four millions) of the
persons who were qualified to vote at the
previous general elections: the proposal
referred requires for its passage an abb
solute majority of such persons. The
present indication is that the liberty