The Archive · 1937

Dull Ottawa Session

the business will be completed Ju time {or the great exodus to the Coren; on, ° Premier King has said that, if necessary, the House will adjourn and isvemble Ju the early summer to complete its business; As this 1s not very popular suggestion it Is likely that the next two weeks will sce a rush to get through what is necessary, Seldom has there been a duller ses sion at Ottawa, The only "full-dress" debate has been that on the Defence Estimates, and even then there was very ttle excitement, The Conservatives practically took no part in the debate, and the main body of Liberals lett to the believed that many of the Liberal members. were opposed to the" est mates, but that they were as good told th caucus to too the line Test the plums of patronage disappear, 'They toed the line No one' can figure out what Mr. Bennett {s planning to do, Those who were in the House last year might swell have accused him of Wasting the lime of: the Government with useless talk, This year he seems to have the faculty of keen criticism of current policies, In fact, at times one would think he was one of the Government's best supporters; on a number of oocasions he has helped the Ministers to defend their estimates, There is a rather widespread belief that he about to retire, algo speculation ro-garding his probable successor, Up to the present no official statement has been made by the Conservative party, 'They also developed a compact social and political system, a very efficient military organization, and employed in their fighting bow and arrow, halberds and spears and, shove' all, chariots. In this culture developed in North China, more than 3,000 years ago, we have found most of the rudiments of what are usually considered as the characteristic features of the Chinese civilization, 'The chronological' relationship of these three cultures has been determined by a number of excavations In northern Honan, In all these excavations the three cultural phases fare found in the same locality, and usually the painted pottery culture constituted the bottom of the deposit, overlaid by artifacts of the" black pottery culture, while In turn was covered a cultural layer datable on the Shang Dynasty. The cultural Sequence thus determined holds true ste for rier onan, There the of court si mun impor taps, which azo yet (0 be filed, Sir Arthur Somervell, tthe musical composer, who was Inspector of Music fo the Scotch Education Department, Whitehall, and formerly Principal Director of Music to the Board of Edueation,-has died at the age of 73, 'Tur opening ceremony of the Visva~ bharatt Chinese hall was performed at Santiniketan, India, by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on' the, Bengali New Your's Day, April 14, 'The hall which will serve as the' centre of Sino-indian and Buddhistic studies a left of a number of Chinese friends Dr, Rabindranath Tagore, who headed by Chiang-Kal shek, Dr, Tal Chietao, and others have formed the Sino-indian, Cultural Soolety. for strengthenlig the cultural bonds be+ tween China and India, "About a couple of years ago Dr. Tagore received. from the society a magnifcent Chinese brary, Prof, Tan Yun Shan will direct: the Chinese studies at Santiniketan, paar

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