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...question remains how, if three parties are to remain, is the nation to be guarded against too frequent dissolutions? I should on no ground leave to the monarch the invidious and dangerous task of being the guardian. . . . Looking ahead, however, one of two things may have to be done. The present maximum life of the House of Commons is five years. Shall we be driven to fix a minimum? If we were it ought not to be more than three years. As an alternative, could the House of Commons be made to decide its own dissolution within the maximum period...
...primarily religious between Catholic and Protestant princes over the principle cujus regio ejus religio ("the religion of the monarch shall become the religion of the country"). Wallenstein, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne and Richelieu were conspicuous...
...King Albert of the Belgians visited Rome last year. This was the first visit of any Catholic monarch since 1870, when Pope Pius IX threatened a ban on Catholic monarchs who accepted the hospitality of the House of Savoy, which had usurped his temporal power...
...York World undertook to boost Manhattan as the city for the next Democratic Convention. If the Democratic Convention goes to Manhattan, it will be a feather in the World's cap and its editor will remind the residents of his principality that he surveys all and is monarch of all he surveys. But the World's project is insignificant compared with the attempt of the editorial monarch of The Christian Science Monitor...
...secure themselves against future war by legislating that in case of war not only soldiers, but capital and labor should be conscripted for the nation's need. To be sure, the idea is not new. It was suggested by the late President Harding last Summer. But the Monitor monarch proposes that a Constitutional Amendment shall be passed making this triple conscription obligatory- and thereby in the future scare all classes of society out of jingoism. In pursuance of his editorial decree, the front page of the Monitor has been placarded heavily with notices of the decree, giving the opinions...