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The Review of Reviews. 



AufUll 1, 1906. 



the Government of the da\ has undertaken to act as 

 host to the representatives of the parliaments of the 

 world. Whether or not the ancient Mother of Par- 

 Haments will be able to provide the Conference with 

 a home in Westminster Hall, which has been the 

 scene of so many stirring episodes in our national 

 history, is not yet knovm. But nothing will be 

 spared to make the meeting of the Conference 

 memorable in international histor}-. It will meet on 

 the eve of the second Hague Conference — it was the 

 Interparliamentary Conference, it will be remem- 

 bered, which suggested the idea of the first Parlia- 

 ment of Peace — and it will contain for the first time 

 the parliamentary representatives of Russia and of 

 the South 

 American Re 

 public. ^^'e 

 heartily con- 

 gratulate Mr. W. 

 R. Cremer and 

 Lord Weardale 

 upon the official 

 recognition 

 which they have 

 secured at last 

 for the great 

 dea of an inter- 

 national parlia- 

 ment. No effort 

 will be spared to 

 make the recep- 

 tion and enter- 

 tainment of our 

 d i s t i nguished 

 foreign visitors 

 worthy of their 

 merit and of the 

 importance of 

 the occasion. 



Decimal Point 

 One Per Cent. 



The proposal to 

 create a Budget 

 of Peace, based 

 on the principle 

 that for every 

 thousand pounds which we spend on powder and shot 

 we should fine ourselves one pound, to be spent in 

 removing the causes which convert brother nations 

 into deadly foes, is .steadily growing in public favour. 

 The veteran Peace advocate. Senator Passy, de- 

 voted a long article to the subject in the Steele, 

 written in the strain of the exclamation, " Lord, 

 now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for 

 mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.' That Govern- 

 ments themsehes should become active propagan- 

 dists of peace and of fraternity among their subjects 

 seems to him a millennial vision altogether too good 



Photograph by'} {Untversel, Paris, 



The Proposed " Palace of Peace " at the Hague. 



Two hundred and seventeen .-irchitects from almost ever.v country in the world entered for 

 the competition for designs for Mr. Carnegie's " Palace of Peace ' and no fewer than 3 OSS 

 drawings were sent in The first prize was awarded to il. Cordonnier for the design here 

 reproduced, but it is not absolutely certain that this design will be adopted. 



to be true. Yet there is no doubt that the present 

 British Government is very much disposed to recog- 

 nise its responsibilities in this matter. Governments 

 have hitherto acted as if nothing mattered but 

 Governments. As long as sovereigns were not un- 

 friendly, and as long as there was no dispute be- 

 between their Foreign Offices, they assumed that 

 they need do nothing to secure peace, although a 

 propaganda of mutual hate was raging between their 

 subjects generating passions certain to find vent in 

 war. We must change all that if the world is to 

 progress towards settled peace. Governments must 

 regard the promotion of friendlv feelings between 

 the nations over which they rule as one of the most 



imperious of 

 their duties. 

 Mining engin- 

 eers who allow 

 fiery gas to accu- 

 mulate in the 

 pit have only 

 t lie m selves to 

 blame when ex- 

 plosions occur. 



The Reduction 

 of Armaments. 



Even .Senator 

 Passy began to 

 feel that the op- 

 timism that pro- 

 posed the crea- 

 tion of a Budget 

 of Peace was not 

 without its justi- 

 fication when he 

 read Sir Edward 

 Grey's memor- 

 able declaration 

 in the debate on 

 Mr. He n ry 

 Vivian's resolu- 

 tion in fiivour of 

 a reduction of 

 armaments. Mr. 

 Vivian, one of 

 the most promising of the younger members of the 

 House, gave strong expression to what is the pas- 

 sionate conviction of Labour everywhere, that the 

 money needed for the amelioration of the social con- 

 dition of the masses can never be secured until the 

 ruinous waste of our resources on annaments is 

 checked. Sir Edward Grey welcomed the resolution, 

 which was carried unanimouslv. The Foreign Secre- 

 tary declared that there was a fair prospect that 

 national expenditure could be reduced considerably 

 without endangering national safety. He hinted that 

 the Government might take the initiative in propos- 



