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...official statement issued from 10 Downing Street stated that Bonar Law has no intention of resigning the Premiership...
...week contain the name of that eminent Doctor of Laws, Jan Ignaz Paderewski. The University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights on the stage...
...declaring that he will sponsor a measure liberalizing the franchise (now restricted to male taxpayers 25 years of age and older), Kato has at least temporarily silenced his critics and renewed his grip on the Premiership...
Since the war Paderewski has tried his hand at the premiership, and has returned to America a sadder and wiser man. After him many governments have ruled and fallen, and President Narutowicz, after a reign of two days, has been assassinated. Yesterday a new president was elected--Wojiechowski, who, as his name suggests, is a friend of the "strong man of Poland", Marshal Pilsudski. He is of the same party as the late president, and will continue his policy; but what appears most hopeful is that he has the respect of both Radicals and Nationalists, and is well assured...
Before becoming Premier in 1915, Mr. Vaughan served in the Parliament of Australia continuously for ten years, having entered Parliament in 1905. During this period of service he was State-Treasurer and Minister for Lands from 1910 to 1912. Among the important measures passed during his premiership, which he resigned in 1917, were those affecting the remodeling of the educational system, making it one of the most up-to-date in the world, the industrial conditions, and the war policies of his counery...