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...Herbert, before engaging in banking and public utilities, served as a civil engineer in the engineering & construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, among others. The eldest of his three sons, Captain Herbert Paton Holt, lives in England and is a member of the British Parliament...
British Empire. The strong trend of the Dominions is toward increasingly autonomous minor-nationhood, but the Empire continues to be wielded from London by the British Parliament and the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. He, moderate by nature, Conservative by party, is constantly swayed toward reactionary measures by the overwhelming Conservative majority in the House of Commons, and by three dynamic reactionaries in his Cabinet: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough...
French Republic. The fluid, radical republicanisms of the French Parliament are now harmonized and harnessed by the "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincare. Because he averted a national panic in 1926 by rescuing the franc from what seemed a bottomless decline, the Chamber now allows him the authority of an absolute dictator over French finance. His reactionary ideas of foreign policy are not, however, stomached by the Chamber, which gives loose rein to that great, constructive pacifist, Foreign Minister Aristide Eriand. The Senate is always ready to follow M. Poincare's conservative financial policies and ever suspicious...
...States of the Republic" rejected a bill proposing that Germany should embark upon a naval building program which called for the construction of one armored cruiser of 10,000 tons. Since the august consent of the Reichsrat must be obtained before a bill can be introduced in Parliament, the proposed "naval program" was definitely quashed. (See COMMONWEALTH and FRANCE...
...radio telephone service between England and the U. S. only 834 calls originated in England, less than three a day. Fees paid totaled $250,000, but cost of operating the sending station at Rugby was $600,000. This must be investigated, cried T. D. Fenby, Liberal member of Parliament, and the service perhaps discontinued. In Manhattan the American Telephone &Telegraph Co. (Bell System), which makes the transatlantic connections from the American side, immediately counterblasted the British plaint. Its operators have been placing seven to eight calls a day for London; the company's profits have exceeded...