The subject of the first article in the September number of "The Round Table"
is. of course, "The Crisis in India." Its nature and history are explained, and the difference shown between the British and the Indian standpoints—those of the best British and the best Indian minds. The writer considers the gulf to be narrower than it is usually supposed to be, though he is sure that there is only one way in which a bridge can be found.
The next article is "The Task of the Imperial Conference," a task: left over from the 1926 gathering, and brought back to the Imperial Conference again from the Committee to which it was referred, the Dominion's Legislation Committee, with definite recommendations, What degree of significance should be attached to these is explained. The writer reminds us that the problem now is not to look back, trying to save something here and there from what is left of Great Britain's old supremacy, but to construct something better in its place.
The next. article takes us across the Atlantic to Hoover and his first Congress," and it is plain that not only the President, but the Senate have come with credit out of the Naval Pact Business. Tt is obvious too, from the account of other events in the American political world, that Mr. Hoover's stock is rising.
The fourth article' is "Imperial Economic Unity." Lord Beaverbrook's scheme for Empire Free Trade is subjected to a searching criticism, and the causes of the world-wide depression are discussed. In the writer's view, there are other ways in which the people of the British Empire can endeavour to help one ancther with less risk of disappointment.
"England from Without" gives us a of ourselves as others sce us. We gat foreign impressions of our moral, social and political life, and the American, it seems, differ: from the Continental. The view, parently common enough, that we are on the downward grade, is discussed. Fortunately there are," 28 the writer points out, some consol-features.
Next comes "China in 1930" from the Far East itself a front where 'a quarter of the human race, and the pockets of all of us are affected
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