he new Duchess. Theatre way opened Inst week, It is in Catherine Street, just off the Strand, and has silver-painted armchairs covered blue and silver striped brocade in the stall, the dress circle, and the upper circle, Every effort has been rade to design a theatre which will ive comfort to the patrons in all the seats, and many rows have beet sacrificed marder to give ample width and depth to every seat in the house. The seating accommodation is for 500 people, Then, London's largest and latest selves to a policy of Non-cooperathe clamour of Brahmin agitators, it Fealizes that there is no period been in better attendance at the tion and Civil Disobedience from may be fastening a new slavery on ieedreme" will be opened this time that can be humanly foreseen House during the Committee stage, midnight on December 31, if at least the 300 millions: and there is. in which these changes will be pos-certain drastic amendments might month, on the site of the old Palais Dominion status was not granted ground for such a doubt, since irde Danse at Hammersmith, Work sible, without producing in India on have been made, but even on the responsibility, duplicity "and in-even a greater scale the disruptive now complete on the eight mile night when the Liberals decided to ing. aside the impracticsincerity have been prominent, of refrigerating pipes which rehieal conditions prevailing into the Lobby with them, the ability of giving a disunited and beneath "a floor space more than Political India certainly has its! ina to-day." Sentimentalists two parties were unable to muster irresponsible India complete. se)ffehree times as large as the old tongue An its: cheek. Self-govern-have violently attacked Lord enough votes to vanquish the Gov-government, and the. sheer inad-ment (Dofninion status) does not at.
Birkenhead for such an utterance? dance floor, and, by means, ernment. Thi happened on Inissibility of secession, it is not! all mean to these people the ith- but after al it amounts to precisely special apparatus, it will be pos-several ccdasions and is causing. humanly possible to decide the sible to "defreeze" the ice within 13 drawal of British troops. It i the same thing as Mr. Baldwin said Jconsiderable comment in the press Indian problem' by dawn on New hours whenever the floor is needed parently presumed that the British more tactfully in the same debate and elsewhere. Although there ar Year's Day. The Commission for boxing or other purposes. The Hon will place the British Army in the Commons about 250 Conservatives in the to report, the report has to be dis-muse of the orchestra will be India. at the: disposal of a pack We have a great ideal set before House, the number attending the enssed, and then Parliament has to amplified through eight loud speak of Inwyers to use for their own pass an Act, or a series of Acts, Fealiea," Our. york st. be Ware cannot. hope. tes debates on this Unemployment In-hidden in the roof, During the fanatical and nefarious end. What 2 wuranee Bill seldom exceeded 150.
Should. a change be desired either tabaret shows, which will be given they mean by "Complete Independ-Nevertheless, the Government. is) enhancing or curtailing the present fatare with the same Every day, the mountain scenery of ence" and a secession from the system. On the other hand, it is Empire is not clear, because, of work fo, the preen finding it very much more difficult: the wall will be lit up by sunsets feszentinl that, the discussion should course, they don't mean anything at Bere will be men to get through its legislative programme than it had anticipated and and falling snow. take place in a calm, dispassioned, li, There is nothing which would already there are rumours that: New Park Lane Wonder and if possible friendly atmosphere. cotise more frantic consternation Parliament may be forced to sit Non-cooperation and civil disobedi-Now that the eries of the order amongst Indian agitators than a right up to Christmas eve in order fence mean a resistance to. all law inhabitants of London over the full and complete gift of what they Which is all very Parliamentary jose of what Mr. MacDonald fand authority, and a refusal to pay erection of the Grosvenor House demand. but itis the essence of the whole taxes, and. results) inevitably—aa lock of fats in Park Lane are bee It has to be remembered that, business—long generations.. And it experience has shown—in mob viol-India is bigger than the whole of is interesting to compare the above ginning fo die away, we learn that fence, viot and bloodshed. Tt wai Too Few Houses the ext novelty in this famous Europe (less Russia), that she statements by a Liberal and by with the object of giving the ex-freet is to be an all-conerete hotel Tremises and. the politicians a lodppossesses as many races and with that of the Despite the succession of Govern-fon the site of Dorchester House. hole of escape from their mad Con-languages, and as little ethnological ment housing subsidies which have Supreme cont: a} in the matter of and social unity. In fact, there is} himself on the same occasion: gress obligation that the Viceroy been in force' ever since the wary design has been entrusted to Sir made his famous statement, not such a thing as India at all, but would be a poor friend to the caus it appears that there are still far Evan Owen Willams, who was the That declaration has met with a only a continent which foreign do-Indian " self-government too few houses in the country. in consulting civil engineer to. the mixed reception—as everything minion has created into a unity would deny the existence of real Every big town has a long waiting British Empire Exhibition at Wem-called "British India." India is far obstacles both in substance and in distracted India always does, Those list of people applying for "Council-blay. 'This 18 probably the first time {who have. pinned their faith on the more diverse than China. Its time" houses," despite the amazingly large that an engineer, and not an archie Bimon' Commission regarded the Tanguages, religions, societies, and The attitude of England is of numbers of new buildings. that. fect, has been given the position aces are oven less reconcilable. statement as ill-timed, and likely to supreme importance, sine the cluster round nearly every town in of over-riding authority, and there Hinda and Mussulman will unite prejudice the Commission on the ultimate decision lies with the England to-day.. Since 1919, to the much curiosity to see what will when fire and water do—not before. eve of its Report. In itself, House of Commons. Any further: be the result. Gocument. is a simple appeal for The fierce Pathan will lie down with experiments. in democracy, © any. ed will and a restatement of the the legal-minded Bengali only in elements divide by reason of th The appointment oven of 90 further weakening of the Govern fi|fear of each other. There is eminent an. engineer as Sir Owen jovernment's policy (promulgated that Elysium where lambs and lions ment of India's authority, British Indin and the Native Wiliams witl probably be regarded 1017) to proceed ultimately to sweetly fraternize, precipitate a bloody crisis such as. had not been seen in India since States, Hindu and Mussulmat as a challenge to architects, The self-government. ident caution that Brahmin and Outeaste—the more Se is so important and the Gros-'The fly in the ointment is the Raw Haste ud the Monkey House England has come to desperately the Government tries £9) venor Flats, its close neighbour, ar ultimately: and_subsequent heated fin India as an inexpresreconcile them the more untractab dovrinating in design, that' the These, and a hundred other cruel debates in the House of Commons sible relief. And the same caution they become: and for the Bri treaunest of & great while mass of and stern realities, are before the have drawn from the Labour exists in those sections of the home Government, in spite of itself, reinforced concrete will need to be res of Parliament. In the welte Government the admission that as press whence help was not ex-there is strength in this. exceptionally skilful if there is not skelter of post-war readjustment, regards time there is no change of be a resultant clash of style and Messrs. Montagu and Chelmsford pected. The policy. That is—presumably—India Said the Governor of Bengal material. rushed' in with a "pacifying" re-Frill have self-government as soon ax hhis speech at the St, Andrew's Day form where angels would have "talkie" Troubles the is At for it, which some consider dinner in Calcutta: feared to tread. The present ex-like to refer. to the con-'The present feature of the Lon-cannot be before another couple of amination is far otherwise. The! ficulty with which don cinema world is a reaction in centares. gla! India, on the Simon Commission has taken two!
"There are certain well-known this -|favour of the silent firn, This other handwrefuses. to laborious years to go over the: facts whilie make it dificult to. see week, @ London luxury' cinema, matter of when but ground and there is little they have undertake the risks which built its reputation on a deciding how self-government can not seen with their own eyes from series of excellent American films be achieved immediately. The the bleak starkness of the Afghan Viceroy's statement announced that Hills whence the eagle looketh down ss} and which has specialized in talking films of the highest quality, is after the Commission's report, and from the crag to the propensity of there. can Biitish Parliament would refuse to inck of, indication showing two films which are to al before Parliament legislates, there soft-brained, spectacled youths for! eon a basis Minority T might appoint would be tents silent in their action. shall be a Round Table Conference throwing bombs about in the very'
Able to rely upon that support which is one of the two or three big West at which an effort will be made to Legislative Assembly itself. And ity.
End cinemas which have retained. Achieve the utmost possible agree the Commission has attended the That is roughly the situation as the their orchestras. The Plaza, Lower ent. Will political India. boycott Legislative Assembly with all pomp] we approach the new and fateful the Regent Street, which is another, the Conference, as it boycotted the and ceremony and they know that year in which, we hope, India's proa ito, sus fuses its excellent orchestra even Parliamentary Commission? At] it is popularly called the "Monkey diem will be' happily solved.
Fevoke the transfer of Transferred with talking pictures, without ite present, $0. it but the House.", They know the Simian India itself the Moderates are Euhjecte and confine the prevent ay, Situation is very confused—they or to appoint seriously alarmed and are busy with chance being obtrusive. rages of lawyers, the patient suf-will only attend the Conference if fering of cultivators, the rude as-representations. The Extremists Support in the The displeasure of film patrons Dominion status is taken as sertiveness of effete Madrasis, the: hesitate between argument and on missing their accustomed orcepted. Whether the Viceroy has suave courtliness of Afghan bandits. threat. The Indian Government—_ He continues chester, whose leader was often succeeded or not in drawing.the a minority in its own Councils—is favourite figure with them, is being There is very little—after two years feel T cannot resort to the first extremists from their threat of boycott—that the Simon Commission, more or less ing potent. And at audibly expressed. It is being Bellion (and it is nothing less) on does not know. Further, it is calm, home this note of caution has be-of Bee, siaeati shown just as plainly in the falling January 1 will be speedily seen, Hitshion has been broken down." impartial, judicial. 'There are two) come strikingly evident. receipts of cinemas, which, in haste Since the' period will have lapsed things that even Mx. Pundit) Yet, whether the Governor admits to economise after paying for falke almost before -this article is in Motilal Nehore cannot do. He can-'The Power of the it or not, it is evident that the con-jing film apparatus, now rely on the press. It is obvious that if the not bamboozle the Simon Commisstitution' as inaugurated by the "tinned" masic it' provides, Who-Indian discussion takes place in.an sion and he cannot bounce Sir John.
And yet the Indian Government "Reforms" has broken down and ther this reaction is genuine, or is atmosphere of riot and bloodshed, is not as impotent as it looks that the Government of Bengal is 'a minor movement being: vigorously Nobody can. the issue will be very much pre-despite the attacks and defeats it arried on under emergency powers. fanned by disgusted and disgruntled judiced.
Cutting across all this confusion receives from its own Legislatures.
And these Bengalis, who fail to jerchestras, remains to be seen.
Ta England, the Viceroy's state-is Burma—since the Burmese Wars Tt is accused of a policy of "divide administer a presidency, even a mont and the ensuing debates have an Indian province—which is sick'
Bernard Shaw Iissed and rule" which it hotly deni wnicipality, are clamouring for had the effect of making all parties fand tired of it all. Perhaps Burma, Yet the more it tries to unite th ther Dominion status or complete Through a misunderstanding, Bei consider their attitude towards the London problem. BY parties we whose frontiers run with those of China, is more alive. to: the stark: vers. elements, the more those independence in a continent!
Bernard Shaw had an unpleasant
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