Nov.
In France President Doumergue's position is precarious owing to the pressure of party allegiance jon his Radical colleagues. Great Britain the National Gov-majority loses weight at each by-election jand, it the Conservatives were too absorbed in their own differ-lenees, they would be thinking furously over recent municipal turns. The sweeping victory of the Democrats in the American jelections shows that, on the other side of the Atlantic, the. order still is "loft incline", as the soldiers say. China, perhaps, can confess to participation in this tendency for, as yesterday's special survey showed, the Reds in Kiangsi not yet out of the running nor the Government troops out of the wood. France can be left to develop her own crisis. Great Bri {tain's National Government is se-
Joure for some time to come, s0 to-day's Lord Mayor's Show ' will be watched by Londoners without serious political preoccupation. China, gazing placidly on the mysteries of the silver move, the admirable progress of Sino-Japanese relations in the North, under the joyes of the Generalissimo, the diffidence of Canton and the elusiveness of the Reds, may also be allowed to simmer awhile. fitting to contemplate the Demojeratic victory across the Pacific where the emphatic defeat of Mr. Upton Sinclair affords almost the only balm to the conservatively-led American, Yet Repubicans will be found to aver that the results point more to Mr Franklin Roosevelt's than to any blind belief in the virtue of the "left incline." There may be sardonic intentions in minds of the voters. They may wish to say to the author of the New Deal: "it is your baby, not Hoover's—you have full powers to nurse it"
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