De +10, Yugoslavia has formally charged the months of January, February|Hungary with complicity in the and March next—one quarter'scred-|assassination of King Alexander. fis on the next Budget—thereby The League of Nations hi under debarring itself from frustrating iscusion that charge and Hun-his plan of action by withholding gar; rejoinder. Behind Yugo supplies. That would have piven|slavia are Czechoslovakia and him time to arrange the dissolu-rumania who on November 22, tion of Parliament, and the con-when the Note was presenta at vening of a National Assembly to Geneve at once signified their carry out his proposed reforms, if] c occurrence in its terms, France this turned out to be in accord-has intimated that she sands by ance with the national will.
Yugoslavia and Italy has shown Doumergue was bitter against the|equally firm support of Hungary. Socialist-Radicals and especi Meanwhile the investigation of me against M. Herriot whom he de-Mareeilles crimes is incomplete and finitely accused of having betray-the arrested men have sull to be ed im, despite the fact that the|tried. It seems to be common latter Knew all about the former's ground that the assassins against a policy of drift in the Far East. The Manchurian issue cannot be indefinitely an unsolved enigma in Geneva. Those who seek to form conciustons thereon are handicapped by an inability to arrive impartially at the tacts. To all intents and purposes, Manchurian affairs are seen exclusively through Japanese eyes. Thus the eventual success of the pretence that Manchoukuo possesses the normal attributes of independent sovereignty is seriously prejudiced. Here, again, the decision nf Japan to leave the League is a hindrance to the settlement which Japan, as much as anyone else, has' an! interest in achieving. Perhaps, us time goes on, this consideration with the volatile Press Lords of Northcliffe House and Shoe Lane. He has steadfastly met and defeated these successive challenges to his leadership. His latest triumph seems decisive. There can be little doubt that the conversion of the Earl of Derby, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr. L. S. Amery from hesitant to confirmed believers in the Government's policy carried enormous weight. The magnitude of the Bill will "necessarily involve arduous debates in its passage through Parliament. Conservative consolidation in its favour should prevent continuation of those distressing recriminations which have been s0 embarrassing to the Administration in India, With the redistribution of the national income over a breeder Dasis, this century has seen the Fapid growth of a lower middle class, of which the City clerk, skilled artisan, and shop employes are typical. In present circum stances many of this large body of electors are suffering trem inter mittent_ unemployment, while mot all have reduced" incomes subject to excessive taxation, local and national. Necessary outlays for clothes, rent, travelling, and the education of children have creased disproportionately, and now food prices show a tendency to rise. Tt may be true that trade is slowly improving, but it is from the family, not the national budget, that the elector estimates the value of current policy. Generally plans, and had indeed drawn up|members of a terrorist organiza-one of the proposed articles of re-ition. Yugoslavia maint that form in his own handwriting. The|this organization received special Parliamentary truce went by the|encouragement of indulgence from board, and M. Flandin was called|the Hungarian authorities and in to form a ministry which could|recalls the protests made earlier only hope to live by a restoration in the year against the terof the status quo. That M. Flan-|rorist activities of certain Yuyodin proceeded to do, and from his|siavian emigrants in Hungary, ministerial declaration, and hhislespecially in the Janka Puszia subsequent actions, it appears thi camp. Hungary argues that the he has done little more than! assassins were purely Yugoslavian change the order of M. Dou-terrorists and had no connection morgue's programme and to have|with the Croatian element which Subordinated the question of con-|by ethnological ties might be stitutional reform to the ability or/considered to. have inability of his Cabinet to arry|associations. Furthermore Hun-out his other schemes. Indeed, he|gary contends that 'Hungarian seems to have been in search' of|advocacy of the revision of the ions at which his prodes-treaty of Trianon is based pun.y cessor had already arrived. Thus:—on constitutional methods and
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