In a changing world there is little of an abiding nature and the devious course of national policies and world polities merely complicates matters by strewing the international calendar with records of new events. During the week-end including yesterday, the calendar has provided an apt illustration of the change. While Japan is attempting to unmake history by finding reasons for sabotaging the Nine-Power Treaty other political dates occurred. There was the 21st anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, the beginning of the third year of the siege of Madrid which has achieved nothing but destruction, the first anniversary of the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan and the 15th anniversary of the Japanese Imperial Rescript for the Development of National Spirit. All these are important signposts of a few coincidental days in two decades Of world history and as the clash of ideological ideas and ambitions becomes more intense and achieves more changes in the geographical and political structure of nations so will the calendar overcrowd until groaning point is reached and history becomes not a record of progress but a highly complicated mass of contradictions and inconsistencies that will riged more than a professor of history to unravel. There is one anniversary that might endure in one part of the world if it oan keep its sense of humour. It was Guy Fawkes' Diawkes Day in England on Saturday and judging by the disrespect which the general public has generally entertained towards the efforts of legislative assembles in most countries for centuries, the unhappy conspirator whose name made the day nationally famous was perhaps laudably inspired when he attempted to use barrels of gunpowder to dispose of the issue.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.