King Edward VIM's abdication gave Mr. Baldwin a chance of winning bback all and more than his previous popularity. There is no. dissentient voice that he handled that crisis as few if any other men could have done, and with a perfect Interpretne ion of his fellow countrymen's feelings.
In other respects Mr, Baldwin's administration has been the subject of much controversy and, in respect of foreign policy, of complaints that it has chopped and changed and filed to take resolute line.
In which three or four things may be said:—that nobody outside the Cabinet knows for how much of our foreign policy the Prime Mitister was personally responsible; that the con Gitions of the world have never been what they are y, making a consistent policy almost impossible: land that no previous Prime Minister was similarly handicapped in a time Of crisis by the League of Nations broad "and the League. of Nations: Union at home, The moral of the bus strike Is surely that extremism rover pays in this country, Late last night it, was announced that the Executive Council of the Transport Union, whose high priest Is the astute Mr, Bevin, had assumed. responsibility for the strike, superseding the Central Bus Committee which ts bossed by the Bolshevike element. This means that the strike will be over long before this loiter reaches you—some say that the men will return to work this week, But its lessons are not to be forgotten. Whatever the men's grievances, the real. ght hag been between the Bolsheviks and Mr. Bevin, His instinct was far too good not to realize what a chance the men were losing when they refused to accept the report of the Court of Inquiry and go back to work pending fuller investigation of their complaints. The Bolsheviks (I calt them that merely for convenience) were set on breaking the Executive Coun-el's control. They did their utmost {o bring out the train and trolley bus men, but the latter wisely decided to eave themselves in the Executive Committee's hands.
From that point the fate of the bus strike was sealed. The Central Bus Committee made one final effort Insist on a fight to a finish but the Executive Council's decision to take charge of affairs shows that the Bolsheviks are beaten, More Discipline Necessary Two points call for attention, The revolt of the Bolsheviks is only 9 symptom of what has been yoing on for some time in many unions, It trade unionism is to remain the effective force which from the men's point of view it has been, there must method of* recording opinions ought to be adopted than the show of hands. If a ballot had been taken on the question of going back to work on the Court of Inquiry's proposal, there is very tittle doubt that the mon would have gone. The strenuous resistance of the Busmen's Committee shows that, Men may not have the moral courage to resist a (ub-thumper in open voting but if they could vote secretly they would vote differently, What is apparent to all the work-class is that the busman have ween induced to remain out for nearly four weeks, they have earned the greatest unpopularity among their fellow workers whom they put rear inconvenience, they have wasted at least £180,000 of their funds strike pay, and they have got further than they "could have got three weeks ago—the additional, Investigation of their complaints which the Court of Inquiry, expressing obvious sympathy with them then offered, The ' championship show of the Pekingese Club at Ranelagh yesterday "eves mention, 'There were about 190 dogs on show and their aggregate value was reckoned at well over £4,000, Considering that an Indian prince has recently pald 2,000 for a rime English Poke, and that' an Englishwoman who" owns a. very successful sire has refused an Ameri can offer of £1,500 for him, the aggregate might be much higher than that.
The craze for Pekingese has lasted 40 long now that it might have been expected to be subsiding, but the Feverse is the case. Like the French oodle, and possibly the pug (but who ever sees one of the larier now) the Poke "is grossly misused and lraduced by most of the silly women who make a pet of him, Actually is, or should be, a "brave and gallant little beast.' 1 know. lady {in the country who owns a Poke as well "as several other dogs, She treats him exactly like the rest, with Proper food, exercise and discipline; fand he bosses the whole pack and At the root of any piece of adventure Among the 34 Stems from the Dumber library formed by the fourth "Duke "of 'Neweastle and Sold at Solheby's on June 21 Zor £48,055, the highest price paid was £13500 for a" Lamolgnon' Book of Hours illuminated: manuscript of the first half of the Afteen century, contract for the provision of a new Tus P.O. have just obtained a troopship, She will be Built in ce" operation' with, and to the' require ments of the Sea Transport Depart ment of the British Board of Trade, will be very much on the ines of the troopship. Dilwara (11,000 fons), and with accommodation "for about 1.160 troop ratings In hammocks on the' main and lower decks.
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