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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ad-minister an independent government, whichat one time seemed to have been success-fully demonstrated by the Liberian Republic,cannot fail to be of interest and significanceto the American people. Haitis peculiarnational problems, as they relate to the largerproblems of all the Caribbean peoples, wereset forth by General Legitime, a former Presi-dent (of the repubUc at the Universal RacesCongress, held in London late in July. Anaccount of the proceedings of this Congressappears on another page this month. Britains GraveProblems British politics, domestic andforeign, have occupied the premierplace in the worlds attentionduring recent weeks. Englands firm stand inthe Morocco dispute between Germany andFrance; the Liberal Governments \ictory incurtailing the power of the House of Lords;and the industrial war, which by the middleof last month threatened to bring aboutreal anarchy in the British Isles, made Britishaffairs of intense world interest during the THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 279
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EXCITED UNIONISTS HOWLING DOWN THE BRITISH PREMIER COMMONS ON JULY 24 THE HOUSE OF weeks of July and early August. Mr. Asquithspronouncement of Britains position with re-gard to Germanys ambitions in Morocco un-doubtedly saved France from being forced tohumiliating concessions. The surrender ofthe Lords in the matter of the governmentsveto bill has effected a constitutional revolu-tion in England. As for the great strikes onthe steamships and railroads throughoutEngland, Scotland and Wales, the reportswould seem to indicate that Tom Mann, oneof the best known of British labor leaders, didnot overstate its seriousness when he remarkedlast month that for England the presentindustrial situation signifies a movement neverseen since the days of the Norman invasion. A constitutional revolution wasslilh°nder ^ictually achieved in England last month, and an industrial revolu-tion threatened. On August lo, the House ofLords, by a vote of 131 to 114, accepted thegovernment bill providing for t

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