Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TIME following is brief summary
of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
L ended February 81, 1881:
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GREAT BRITAIN.-There seems to
be a good deal of doubt about the fate
Of the trade-disputss bill, now in the
committee stage. The Sir John Simon
section of the Liberals are urging
amendments adoption of which would
take all the virtue out of the measure
In othsr words Lloyd George, big chief
OF the Liberals, may not be able to
deliver the goods" 1t is understood
that he had engaged support of the bill
for Labor support of the electoral re-
form bill so dear to the Liberals The
present political phase in Great Britain
is fascinating beyond widest fiction.
The House of Lords rejects, 162 to %,
the school att ndance bill.
FRANCE.-The International Colonial
exhibition, which opens toward the end
Of April in the Pare de Vincennes
should go far toward reviving for this
year the somewhat moribund tourist
traffic, for it promises to be a gem
among exhibitions, with its reproduc-
tons by exquisite artistry of fragments
past and presently of America, Asia,
Africa and the Isles.
The participation of other countries
will be notable; Belgium, for example,
with a complete Congo village; the
Netherlands with a Sunda temple, Italy
with typical basilica and a section of
Rhodes at the height of her glory. And
not least interesting, of course, will be
the reproduction of Mount V.rnon (de-
scribed by me in previous ISSUE. Next
to this in interest might be ranked,
should suppose, reproduction in wood
and plaster of the temple of Angkor
Wat the ruins of which (vividly de-
Scribed BY Somerset Vaughan In
recent book are among the wonders of
the world. Morocco should be adequately
represented. seeing that Marshal Lyautey
is commissioner general of the exhibit
ton.
a Spanish royal decree announced cleo
lions for a new CorteS in March. On
February IA a new decree was issued
indefinitely postponing the elections,
and the same day the cabinet headed
by Gen. B2renguer resigned.
Obviously things were in an awful
mess They were indeed. Berenguer's
fall seems to have been precipitated by
the Liberals, headed bv the Marquis de
A'hucemas and the Count de Roma
nones. The obvious development seemed
to be a cabinet embracing Left and
Right supporters Of the regime, the
Liberals predominating. The quid-
nuncS envisaged for it a program that
should be a somewhat liberaliZed YER
sion of the Berenguer program; cleo
tons to new Cortes conformably to
the constitution of 1876, and some pro-
vision for constitutional revision-per-
haps even constitutional convention or
constituent Cortes, but with sufficient
safeguards for the crown. Gen. Beren-
guer had contemplated limited consti-
tutional revision by the regular Cortes)
And almost certainly bid for good will
through general amnesty.
Now recall that sundry groups, in
GLIDING the Reformists (headed by
Senior Alvarez, the Republicans and
the Socialists, have long demanded a
constituent assembly with absolute pow
er to determine the future form of gov
eminent. These groups seem to have
regarded Senior Guerra as in a sense
their common leader OF these gentle
men some were for immediate de-
thronement Of the King. others were
for suSpending his functions from the
date of meeting of the assembly, which
might restore him with curtalled powers
or dethrone him. All have contended
that the King himself, by his participa-
ton in the illegalities of recent years,
did to death the constitution of 1876.
AS was to be expected in Spain, the
obvious development" did not take
place. AS / interpret, the Liberals con-
tracted cold feet" especially Senior
Francisco Cambo, the Catalan chief,
whose cooperation was essential In