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This article focuses on international relations. The author discusses about British imperial politics and the arms conference. British holdings in the Middle East, spreading across all South-Central Asia bordering the Indian Ocean, comprise the Indian Empire proper, including Burma; the protectorates in the Malay Peninsula; and the directly held strategic Straits Settlements, with Singapore lying as a Gibraltar to Far Eastern seas. Summarily, this includes the Indian Empire's 1,802,000 square miles with some 315,000,000 people averaging 175 to the mile, the greatest held for commercial endeavor outside of China itself.

This article presents extracts on the subject of native labor in East Africa, taken from a British White Paper presented to Parliament in August 1920. There appears to be still considerable shortage of labor in certain areas due to reluctance of the tribesmen to come out into the labor field. Those officers who are in charge of what is termed labor supplying districts are doing what they can to induce an augmentation of the supply of labor for the various farms and plantations in the Protectorate. The necessity for an increased supply of labor cannot be brought too frequently before the various native authorities, nor can they be too often reminded that it is in their own interests to see that their young men become wage earners and do not remain idle for the greater part of the year.

This article focuses on political developments in the year 1899. Governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first message is thoroughly characteristic, and is especially strong upon the issue which, more than any other, decided his election, that of good government. The passage devoted to the question of civil-service reform is a sufficiently notable deliverance to constitute by itself a formal declaration of the intentions of the new executive. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury, declined, in his Guild hail speech, to assert a formal British protectorate over Egypt, or even over the Sudan; but he has since practically done the thing.

For Hong Kong, the British colony is but one of scores of islands large and small which lie off this part of the Chinese coast. Some are part of the colony, territory ceded to Britain by China in 1841; others are British-leased territory held on a lease which expires in 1997; the great majority are Chinese territory. All are so intermingled that it is impossible, without a detailed map, to distinguish British from Chinese territory. When the British government, tired of the inconveniences to which their traders were exposed at Canton in China, demanded the cession of the barren island of Hong Kong, with its deep-water harbor and small fishing village, they had no intention of founding one of the greatest cities of the Orient. That invasion rapidly demonstrated another changed aspect of Hong Kong's relation to China.

Presents several letters to the editor. Establishment of a financial Protectorate over Santo Domingo; Criticisms of deliberate acts and expressions of unfairness to people who are entitled to equal consideration; Comments on the writings of author Walt Whitman.

This article presents information on political conditions in the U.S. during 1913. Only one U.S. Senator seems to be flatly opposed to the treaty making the U.S. the protector of Nicaragua. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson will doubtless resent the inferences which many are drawing from their approval of the Nicaraguan protectorate. It appears to be true that strong representations have been made to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson concerning the desirability of according full recognition to the government in Mexico.

The article presents information related to several socio-politcal issues. People are talking about a new Fenian raid on Canada, and it is even said that some of the arms seized by the U.S. officers have been restored to the Fenian prisoners whom the President's clemency recently released from custody and punishment. There is a complete dearth of foreign news of importance. Spain proposes to assume the protectorate of John Pope after the withdrawal of the French from Rome. This has a very apocryphal sound. Spain is not able at this moment to keep the peace in her own capital without the exercise of military force in its most savage form, and the whole country has been for months in a state bordering on civil war.

This article discusses the issue of international trusteeship of the United Nations Conference for International Organization. The question of trusteeship was viewed as a big political fraud. The problem of bases and the disposition of the Italian and Japanese empires is reportedly one of the issues in this consideration. The contrast between the universal principles enunciated in the American, British, and French proposals and their niggardly application is politically explosive. The Soviet Union at San Francisco, California, has seized world leadership on three great issues: first, related to Argentine issue; second, connected with the right to work and the right to an education; and third, questioning the leadership of Soviet Union of colonial and colored peoples.

The article presents information about various social and political developments around the World. Japan has now declared that it means to establish a virtual protectorate over the whole of Asia. The League of Nations and the United States are warned to keep their hands of the Asiatic problem, leaving it to Japan to act as policeman for that continent. This doctrine, if accepted by the other Powers, would automatically scrap the Nine-Power Treaty and perhaps also the Open Door policy. The death of Fred Wolle, founder and director of the Bethlehem Bach Choir, which occurred on January 12, threatens the loss of a second great opportunity for hearing the works of Bach, at a time when general interest in them is perhaps greater than ever before.

The article presents incidents related to the world politics. The French have taken deep offence at the assumption by the British of the protectorate of Zanzibar under the Anglo-German Treaty, because in 1862 a joint declaration was signed by the French and English Governments reciprocally guaranteeing the independence of the Sultan. Moreover, the final act of the Berlin Conference in 1885 obliged every European nation which meant to establish a protectorate over any portion of the African coast, to give notice to all the other Powers. Another one focuses on the incident in which General von Moltke has put on record his testimony against alcohol, which he says he never uses and thinks unnecessary, and he sets down as " one of the greatest enemies of Germany the misuse of alcohol "

The article presents information on the U.S. practical politics. When the U.S. established what is in effect a protectorate over Formosa Strait and its Chinese Nationalist government dangers involved were all too evident. Communist advance at the expense of Formosa. Washington chose retreat. Last week the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America celebrated its fortieth anniversary in old Webster Hall, the scene of its birth on New York's East Side. For the Amalgamated has worked a revolution in the garment industry and in lives of its members.

This article presents information related to finance. The Seventh Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, issued by the Department of Finance, and printed at the Government Printing Office in Tokyo, is a large pamphlet with an appendix of thirty pages on the financial affairs of Korea, now a Japanese protectorate. The Macmillan Co. has brought out the book "Economics," by F.W. Blackmar, in revised form, but without material changes in substance. It aims to cover the entire field in some 500 small pages, with the result that it is greatly condensed and cannot devote sufficient space to the education of the most important and difficult problems of the science.

Outwardly, there is no sign of anything brewing in Spain. Press and radio give the impression that there is nothing to fear from that quarter. The mobilization order issued by the Cabinet three weeks ago has been interpreted as proof of Spain's determination to maintain the status quo. Since it was obvious that the British-American command had no intention of moving in the direction of the Spanish Peninsula or through the Moroccan protectorate, there was no question in the Allied capitals that the order was meant as a warning to Germany.

The admirals and colonels wanted tariffs and ship subsidies and colonies arid protectorates and the own 100 per cent American system of cable communications paralleling the British system all around the world. When, at the round table on Central America and the Caribbean Area, Helena Hill Weed led the discussion on. Haiti, Admiral Knapp, late commander of our Caribbean forces, sat at her left, and two former chiefs of the Latin- American Division of the State Department at her right. And, while it is forbidden to report the discussion of this particular round table, it may be hinted that Weed's grasp of facts commanded the admiral's and the chiefs' keen respect.

The article presents an interview between former Egypt Prime Minister Mohammed Said Pasha and Lord Milner, head of the British Mission in Egypt. Egyptians were boycotting Milner, because they knew that Milner was coming to elaborate a system for the Protectorate, while they seek complete independence. Pasha said it is very easy to make the system Milner wants and to carry it out without consulting any Egyptian, but he does not think that a great and experienced man like Milner will be inclined to adopt this method, and so force a community 14,000, 000 in number to bow to a system of government it hates and refuses to accept.

The problems of the Middle and the East of Europe are still untouched save in so far as they may be dealt with under the Covenant of the League itself. The solution of some of them, like the treatment of minorities should be hastened. To this, again, the presence of Germany on the Council of the League should contribute greatly. Akin to this is the question whether Germany should receive mandates for colonial responsibilities. Every scientific student of colonial administration knows that Germany was making some fine contributions to the subject.

The mandates system of the League of Nations, heralded panacea for righting wrongs of misgoverned peoples, is face to face with one of the most perplexing problems it has ever been called upon to solve. The Rehoboths of South Africa are demanding their independence. The Rehoboths are a community or, as they declare, a nation of about 8,000 souls inhabiting some 5,000 square miles of the most fertile land in German South West Africa. Some fifty-odd years ago they penetrated the territory which the Germans later claimed, and squatted in their present locality.

Africans have developed a common aspiration which bears a modern and forbidding name, nationalism. Imperialism has met the challenge by seeking new ways of prolonging and reinforcing white control. The British government's proposals for a federation of protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia are its solution for the problem in Central Africa. The proposed Federation of British Central Africa would contain fewer than 200,000 whites, outnumbered by Africans about thirty to one.

The article discusses international relations. The circumstances surrounding the recognition by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson of the British protectorate in Egypt are set forth in the following extract from the testimony of Statesman William C. Bullitt before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on September 12, 1919. One of the questions put forth was, "Bullitt, we had before us at one of our hearings, a representative of the Egyptian people. Do you know anything about that, when it was done, or any discussions about it?"

The Secretary of the League of Nations made public on December 4, 1924, a note from the British Government, which was dated on November 19, 2004. Under the terms of that instrument certain questions were absolutely reserved to the discretion of his Majesty's Government until such time as agreement might be come to regarding them with the Egyptian Government. The governments of other countries were informed by His Majesty's Government of the termination of the British Protectorate over Egypt in a notification.

Italy has renounced her treaty privilege of the capitulations in French Morocco. This is a beginning of the final liquidation of this unsettling war. It is a step forward in the international recognition of France's full protectorate and an encouragement to the legitimate extension of French activity in North Africa. The capitulations were a servitude which France was obliged to accept with the protectorate before the war. They gave the right to different nations, to Italy, for example, to have their own consuls judge complaints made against their citizens residing in Morocco.