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The Review of Reviews. 



Timely Truths. 



beginning. We trust tliat Mr. Balfour will 

 recognise himself as having come into a 

 new office, one in which he will be secured 

 by public acclamation, growing steadily in 

 volume as the days go on— that of Thinker 

 FOR TUK Empire. And who could desire 

 or imagine a higher position ? It is one 

 which might well have been filled during 

 past years by Lord Rosebery, who has, 

 however, been content to be the orator of 

 errant inspiration. To show the Empire 

 what its inmost unrealised thoughts are, thus 

 to strengthen ideals, make practical ideals, 

 and by helping the people to know them- 

 selves, make the Empire more practically 

 patriotic, more sentiently loyal to King and 

 country. 



Singularly appropriately 

 came the views of the 

 "Thinker for the Empire" 

 on syndicalism, since to- 

 day sees Lontlon in the throes of strike and 

 disorder. Still more valuable was Mr. 

 Balfour's speech at tlie historic Grocers' 

 Com|)any, when he claimed that the Great 

 Rebellion under Cromwell ought to be 

 called a Revolution, and the Revolution 

 which sent James II. packing was really a 

 successful Rebellion. The latter maintained 

 continuity; the former ruptured it; and 

 not even the genius of Cromwell could 

 induce England to accept the rupture. 

 "History is Philosophy teaching by cx- 

 amjjles " — with Mr. Balfour as mouthpiece. 

 Seismic thrills have still 

 General l^c^n shooting through the 



Labour Unrest, mining World, reminiscent 

 of the industrial earthquake 

 of Maich. That struggle reduced the 

 April ex|)orts by more than two millions 

 sterling, though the imj^orts showed an 

 advance of eight and a half millions on 

 April, 191 I. Dissatisfaction has been ex- 



pressed in some districts with the minimum 

 awards, and a national conference of miners 

 was held in protest. Twenty thousand 

 London tailors went out on strike at the 

 beginning of the month for an increase 

 in pay and better workshops ; but, ,'is 

 the two unions concerned fell out, the 

 strike gradually collapsed. The Sea- 



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The Strike Belt. 



The Meiidian of Greonwicli, or the bolt embracing the world. 



men's Union tried to organise a strike 

 against the P. and O. unless at least two 

 white seamen for every lifeboat were on 

 board, but failed to obtain the support of 

 the Transi)ort Workers. Later, however, a 

 dispute in the London transport trades, 

 which was already luider trial by Sir Edward 

 Clarke, led to 20,000 men going out on 

 strike before Whitsuntide. The docks were 

 laid idle, and food sujipiies were only landed 

 and carted under police protection. Sir 



