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This article presents information on political developments of several nations. The implication is, that the U.S. Republican party is perfectly satisfied with the McKinley Bill, and will insist upon continuing it unchanged for many years. But all thing is in the face of the tariff history of the past thirty years, is in conflict with the actual facts of the situation, and is contradicted by the unavoidable nature and effects of any protective tariff. In addition to all this, the infernal activity and ingenuity of the foreigner are already finding innumerable joints in the McKinley armor. The political situation in England, is to-day probably the most puzzling in the history of the country, and one in which hardly any one's prognostications are of much value. In fact, it has become the fashion, in the strict sense of the term, to denounce William Ewart Gladstone; and fashion now governs, or at all events influences, a far larger circle of the well-to-do people than it used to do.

The deadlock between Great Britain and India imperils one important sector, both political and military, of the battle line of the United Nations. It is from this point of view — which places victory over the Axis above all other considerations — that the issue must be judged and a solution pressed. And from this point of view the attitudes and actions of both the British government and the Congress Party seem unreasonable and unrealistic. The Great Britain government looks upon India as part of the Empire and as a vital link in its military defenses against the Axis.

Parliaments exist in every civilized state. Parliamentary constitutionalism has produced all the benefits anticipated from its adoption by the constitutionalists of the last century. Parliamentary government, in short, meant originally a polity under which a representative assembly played a leading part. It dad not mean, either in England or elsewhere, a polity in which a representative assembly administered the government of the country. Government by Parliament, on the other hand, means a system under which a representative assembly appoints at its own will the national executive, and assumes more or less openly the direct administration of affairs. Take, for instance, the English House of Commons, which does not constitute the English Parliament, bat is by far the most important member of it