Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
The Story the Week Has Told

crafts" including an electrical pavilion
In which the uses of electricity for
power and light in city and country are
displayed.
In sundry other cities and towns
there are smaller but interesting ex-
hibits and there are to be sumptuous
pageants. Twelve years ago Belgium
was down and out" She has fought
through extraordinary difficulties of re-
construction, including three financial
crises-in 1919, 1920 and 1926 She has
come back with a wanion." In an
address at the Antwerp exhibition the
other day King Albert referred with
Chinese understatement to the deter
mined and intelligent labor of the
Belgian people" He scarcely overstated
in declaring that little Belgium has
raised herself in the economic sphere
to place with the great powers"
FRANCE.-It is reported that Franco
German negotiations, looking to settle
ment Of the saar question, have been
indefinitely suspended. Rumor has it
that French feeling on account Of the
reprtSalS on SeparatistS In the Rhine
land, that which Immediately succeeded
the French evacuation, is q main cause
Of the suspension. Note this comment
on the reprisals by the Journal des
Debats:
1T is easy to imagine the uncertainty
in which this leaves the people of the
Saar and even the fears they have for
their future security. This alone should
be enough for us to refuse to abandon
the Saar and to wait until the Saar
people themselves decide by plebiscite
in 1885,"
The German government gave formal
pledges to the allies that there would
be no such repriSals. The Temps of
Paris advances the plausible theory that
the reprisalS were the work, not of the
people Of the Rhineland, but of pan
German agitators from reactionary
centers outside the Rhineland." It does
not believe that the German govern
ment approves them, but expresses sur
prise and regret that the efficient Ger
man police failed to act efficiently.
On July the Tardieu government
escaped destruction by hair only, and
again two days later, its Chamber ma
jority being only three.
The old issue of clericalism reasserts
itself strongly, almost violently.
On July II Parliament was adjourned
by presidential decree unto November.
The closing hours were tumultuous.
The French government announces
the intention to postpone work on It's
1880 naval building program to De-
cember in order to facilitate q settle
ment with Italy.
Paris is to have a new air field, a
commercial one, nearer Paris than LIE
Bourget, and including a stretch of the
Seine, disable by both land planes and
hydroplanes. LIE Bourget will continue
In use, but as strictly military field.
1ND1A.-The All India Moselm Con-
ference opened at Simla on July 4. APP
parently it resolved unfavorably to the
report of the Simon Commission.
Tne Legislative Assembly, the central
legislature OF India, opened at Simla on
July 2. A lively session promises. Ad-
dressing the conference the viceroy,
Lord Irwin, characterized the Simon
report as "a weighty and constructive
contribution to most difficult prob
lem" He declared, however, that the
London Round-Table Conference would
not be bound by the report and he
solemnly repeated his pledge of last
November that dominion status will
be the natural completion of India S
constitutional DEVELOPMENT"
told last week how, on June 80,
the British authorities declared the
working Committee" of the All-India
National Congress an unlawful asso-
citation" and imprisoned its president
and secretary. Nevertheless, the COM
mittee continues to do business, and the
head Of the congresaY has appointed n
new president and secretary thereof.