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...scheme. He proposed to tap the Exchequer for approximately $90.000.000 to be spent on digging reservoirs, building roads and other public works. Further he envisioned Government assistance to several British railways and the London Underground (subway), which would enable them to employ workmen on "improvements" (electrification of steam trackage, new tunnels) costing upwards...
...only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that war between them is "unthinkable," and that mutual "distrusts and suspicions . . . must now cease to influence national policy." At these familiar words-the 1929 formula of Peace-there were cheers from all quarters of the House...
India Mishandled? Liberals and Conservatives moved upon the Government in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords apropos a proclamation made at New Delhi by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. His actual words were merely to repeat to Indians the pledge (which every British Government has made for a decade) that some day the Indian Empire will be granted full "dominion status" with a self-governing Parliament like Canada...
...shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...
...financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week the Deputies were apparently convinced at last that the new Prime Minister is indeed a second Poincare, a strong and jealous guardian of the foreign rights and fiscal integrity of France. When he had done, M. Tardieu received an ovation no less general than M. Briand's. Dopesters conceded him a majority of perhaps...