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The Review of Reviews. 



W.S.P.U., but stuck to the paper Votes 

 for Women. The Pankhursts stuck to 

 the W.S.P.U. and its war-chest, and 

 started a new paper to be called The 

 Su^ragette. These dissensions have en- 

 lightened the world as to the despotism 

 which dominates this eccentric crusade 

 for adult democracy. The Four Tyrants 

 have been exposed. Mr. Ramsay 

 Macdonald has replied to their attack 

 on the Labour Party with an evident 

 joy of battle to which Miss Christabel 

 makes only feebly feline rejoinders. 

 PimcKs young lady inquiring " Are you 

 a Peth or a Pank ? " has set the public 

 a-smiling, and perhaps has set the 

 Suffragettes a-thinking. 



The General Election in 

 Norway has excited less 

 attention in this country 

 than many a petty skir- 

 mish in the Balkans. But the movement 



of opinion in this Scandinavian people 

 affords evidence of the direction in 

 which the electoral mind of Europe is 

 setting. Even before the second ballots 

 were taken the transfer of the reins of 

 pov/er from Conservative to Liberal 

 hands was assured. More notable was 

 the rapid increase in the votes cast for 

 the Social Democrats. Their total vote 

 has trebled in six years. This year it 

 stands at 126,000, as against the Con- 

 servative 165,000 and the Liberal 

 187,000. Far more significant is the 

 fact that the Social Democratic vote has 

 been heavier in the rural districts than 

 in the towns. 



Changes 



in 

 Norway. 



The German 



Social 

 Democracy. 



Ulk.] [Berlin. 



The European Gospel. 



And now abideth Peace, Friendship, and Fear, these three ; 

 but the greatest of these is Fear. 



Even in Germany, the 

 home and citadel of the 

 whole European party, 

 Social Democracy is 

 showing signs of momentous transition. 

 The visit of the British Labour Members 

 to South Germany, to which we referred 

 last month, almost synchronised with 

 the party conference of the German 

 Social Democracy at Chemnitz. And 

 the historic significance of the Chemnitz 

 meetings was the distinct movement of 

 the Social Democracy away from its 

 previous policy of rigid isolation and 

 intransigeance towards the more prac- 

 tical and accommodating tactics of the 

 British Labour Party. The Social 

 Democracy as Bebel would have it 

 seemed to aim at combining the auto- 

 cratic discipline of the Prussian Army 

 with the unbending dogmatism of the 

 Papal Curia. But at Chemnitz the 

 endeavour to censure the co-operation 

 of Social Democrats with other parties 

 in certain electoral contingencies was 

 defeated by an overwhelming majority. 



