Apart from being one of the most inconvenient words in the English language either to pronounce out in extraterritoriality is a seems to invite much loose thinl in its discussion. Nor is this thinking confined to one part school of thought. Not so very Jong ago the suggestion was made that the abolition of extraterritoriality would reduce the safeguards available for protecting} foreign nationals against the varec of Communist revolution the "North-China Daily News" has expressed unequivocal views this subject, Dut it is to be hoped] that it has not been 1 qui tur, Obviously, events such as} those which recently occurred at! Changsha can in no way be linked! up with the doctrine of extraterritoriality.—Extraterritorial rights; have about them none of those transcendental qualities which would make them operative in dist where Communist bandits, owing allegiance to no recognized government and indeed flagrantly defying any fami of civilized government,!
in supreme control, Ceylon and Rubber she past Ceylon has not 4 supporter of rubber restrict The planters there did not favour plication of the Stevenson Ror when the recent May ping holiday was mooted did show any desire to join in it. Nevertheless when Sir Cecil Clementi took his departure from Java wivkout any' restriction scheme his pocket, Ceylon was immensely disappointed. length ske appears to be a convert to rubber restriction, and it not before time that she come to think of ce-operation with other producing countries. 'The position may not be $9 hopeless fas at firet sight appears, seeing' that Ceylon even is talking now: ubout a scheme for some control the industry. The likelihood is that recent discussions have prov toat it is quite impossible to Brvduce one general scheme of! restriction which can be made to apply to all the producing countries, that there must be important modi-[fications of any general plan to] meet each case. France and Ceylon ere already engaged on suggestions which they hope meet theft Particular trouble, and it may be that Malaya and Java be equally active.
The New Peter Pan Whatever may be the politi fame of Mr. George Lansbury, Commissioner of Works, he likely to become a legendary figure British children's imagination. When he first emerged as a public figure he was a sort of a bogey, the diabolical person who carried bombs and murdered landlords and capital-which was the common estimate of the Socialist many years ago. Now, with his many schemes for
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