Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
BY HENRY w. BUM.

DIX n6NN1 W. DUNN
~E following is a brief summary
of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
ended July IS:
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OF NATIONS.-On July 8, with the aid
of the Liberals, the new Labor govern
ment won, $40 to 220, its first division
in the House Of Commons. 1t isn't
clear from the dispatches just what
form the resolution took, but apparently
it, in effect, proposed approval OF what
is known as 1.-The new imperialism"
eSpoused by the Conservatives and con-
templating full realization Of the prin-
ciple of imperial preference and erec-
ton of common protective barriers
for the British Commonwealth of
Nations against the rest of the
world. Obviously, the resolution was
only a feeler. We are going 10
hear great deal OF tnat issue IN IN
party has planted itself on the new
imperialism and proposes a finish fight
on that issue, It's a development Of FIRST
importance.
In the course of the debate Philip
Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer,
declared that In the prediction CAM
paign the Labor party had come out
unmistakably against protection. that
the election results clearly indicated
majority sentiment against protection,
and that In consequence the government
proposed doing away with the safe
guarding duties at the right time. "
Well, a good many people think that
the Labor party SideStepped the issue
of free tracis versus protection in the
prediction campaign and that In the
election the lieges gave no sure ind1-
cation Of sentiment on that issue. Some
win be thinking that Mr.. Snowden
is still feeling" and that his right
time" II not coinciding with Greek
kalends, may be some considerable time
ahead. It is well known that good
many Laborites lean toward q sub.
stantial measure of safeguarding" At
any rate, the principle of compromise
will continue as of old to assert itself
dominantly in British politics. That
fine animal, the leopard, might be so
much finer without his spots, but you
can't rid 'em.
The British government has refused
Trotsky's request for asylum in Britain.
AS q result of collision with an
other submarine on July a British
submarine, her hull rent, sank to the
OOO
feet Of water, the crew numbering 81.
Vigorous rescue operations were at once
undertaken, but with scarcely any hope.
It Is rumored that the creation of
20 new peers of Laborite complexion
is contemplated. In hiS. previous adj
ministration Mr.. Macdonald had the
support Of peers, 8 created at his
instance and old peers converted to
Labor. With the recent elevation of
Sidney Webb and Sir John Sankey to
the peerage, there are now, under
stand, several Laborite peers. discount
Haldane, Laborite during MIR. MacDon-
AIDS former premiership, has since
died).
(News arrives Of creation of Of the
20 in the persons Of Sir George Croydon
Marks, president Of the Columbia
Gramophone Co, and Sir William War
render Mackenzie, said to be Eng
lands greatest expert on industrial
arbitration and Cancellation"
German students are again to be adj
mitted to Rhodes scholarships. BY
Cecil Rhodes will five scholarships an
nualIy were to be assigned to German
students. Though this provision has
been suspended since the outbreak OF
| the war, the officially promulgated roll
of honor Of the Rhodes scholarship is
seen to include German Rhodes scholars
who fell IN the war.
Undoubtedly the Liberal party viii