IROM., the twenty-four-years-old son of Mr, and Mrs, H, V. Starling, of "Hungiao" Uphill-road, Uphill, and formerly of Shanghai gave a first performance of Preludes," his own composition, at a recent concert at the Town Hall, Newsport, Mon, One Welsh paper describes him as "a young composer with a most promising future.
He has studied in England, China "d Japan, and his work is much admired by musicians,"
The young composer, who is at present serving in the R.A.M.C. was born in Shanghai. Of the recent cancer! at Newport, the "South Wales Argus" stated:—"The central interest of the concert was the first public performance of Six Short Preludes, by Herbert Starling. They were very short, but they were beautiful, full of meaning, the work of a composer who definitely had something to say and said it with beauty and authority, The audience was delighted by the pre-which form the essential condition for the world's cultural development are closely bound to sovereign indeppendence, Therefore it would be unwise, it would even be impossible, to artificially put an end to this sovereign independence, which has to be maintained in the very interest of our civilization.
International State Ca-operation The second objection to the scheme of establishing a sort of super-state is of a more realistic mature, For if we iry to carry our thoughts about this to their practical conclusion, we find that the restriction in principle of part of the national sovereignty and the concrete measures necessity ated by it are two quite different things, To take one, very important, instance, An international state cooperation will need an executive organization in the form of an adequate sea, land and air force, The expenses involved will run into hundreds of millions of pounds sterling, which funds will have to be contributed by the member states. But when we remember that some of the members of the League defaulted when it came to collecting £2,000,000 needed for its administrative expenses, we have to conclude that the only means of securing the vast revenues for the upkeep of the collective army force would be by a direct levy by the collective autho ity on the citizens of the national states over the heads of their respective governments, Besides that, the members of these armed forces wil have to obey the commands of the collective authority and not of their own government, if the two are at odds,
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