Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05


BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF
NATIONS.-The Imperial Conference
opened in London on october /. All
the sessions are closed to press ana
public.
1t is proposed to set up in place OF
the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council q new tribunal in which all the
commemorative should be equally rep
resented, to pass upon all legal or con-
stitutional questions which may arise
between commonwealth.
The great dirigible R-101 started
from Cardington on flight Tor 1nola
Friday night.
The Earl of Birkenhead, who began
life as Frederick Edwin Smith, Is dead
at f1fty-eight He was peculiarly the
architect of his own fortunes and ap-
propriately adopted for his crest Latin
sentence Of which the translation Is
THE Smith Of My Own Fortune"
OF middle class extraction, trked by
the strictness of his home, at the age
of II he enlisted, seeing some active
service on the northwest frontier OF
India and rising to sergeant major:
Back in England in 1890, he entered
oxford, where he remained nine years,
proceeding q barrister and whence ne
emerged to enter Parliament and en-
bark on a colorful and distinguished po-
litical and legal career. He held the
offices Of solicitor general, attorney gen.
eral, secretary OF state Tor India ano
lord chancellor, and was one OF the most
successful advocates and one OF the
most effective parliamentary debaters OF
his time, He was q legal pundit ana,
indeed, q notable authority on tnterna-
ttonal law. His outline OF international
law, which FIRST appeared in the rem,
pie Classics" series, Is gem In It's klno
and testifies to a neglected GIT. he was
personable and had fine voice. en-
HIS sobriuuet of "galloper" was felic-
itous. No doubt he was chargeable with
habitual excess of aggressiveness, run
ming now and then to violence and even
insolence. But one suspects that such
manifestations were less Que 70 Dan
tonesoue temperament than to tech
nio1Ie of nanhandling rather amusing
in the retrospect and not ineffective.
He noted, not too incorrectly, that
Honunculus likes to be pulled, eSpe-
cially If wit and humor accompany the
| process. He was gloriously companion
ahIe and was rich in warm friendships.
He did not sing, and was nothing quite
| of the first order, but he was certainly
one of the most salient personalities OF
his time. His energy and gusto
! smacked somewhat of the spacious days
of Hal and BeSs.
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GERMANY.-In 1925 Herr Hitler,
leader of the German Fascists, pub
lished a book entitled 1.-The Fight" "
| whereof a revised edition has been pub
| lished this year. believe that ms 1ol-
| lowers call 1t 1.-The German Fascist
Bible" Therein he declares that the
Third Reich" envisaged by him VIII
aim at the conquest of Russia, that vast
territory of DOUBTLESS wealth demor-
allied by Bolshevism and awaiting
competent organization and governance.
In effect, he says Of Germany what
Mussolini once said Of Italy: Ger
many must expand or explode" Tne
land which means life for our people
must be acquired by the right OF our
victorious sword" He follows Bismarck
in eschewing colonies and sea power.
OF course, sooner or later there must
| be final settlement with France, the
natural enemy" Nice chap, this Hitler
1t is reported that the Economic
party has notified the chancellor OF
the Reich that Immediately on the as
semblinR of the new Reich It's repre-
ses1tatives Will move for initiation Ia
n near future Of negotiations toward