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This article presents information on various international political developments. A great and prolonged national crisis almost invariably produces at least one commanding figure, England has been looking for this figure during the present war, but it had not appeared until British Prime Minister Edward George Villiers Stanley came to the rescue of a divided Cabinet and undertook to organize an efficient system of voluntary recruitment. At this moment Stanley, though not a member of the Cabinet, is beyond question the most commanding personage in English public life, and he has suddenly reached this place because he possesses the combination of qualities which are needed in great emergencies. Soon after the outbreak of the war, the English Society of Friends in London, England organized a War Victims' Relief Committee, with offices at the headquarters of the English "Friends," Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, London. It has worked away with characteristic modest usefulness, and now prints an account of its varied activities, in a series of reports on its relief work in the devastated Department of the Marne and the Meuse, including medical work, feeding, clothing, and housing.