Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on several socio-political developments from around the world. After almost ten years of travail, the Interstate Commerce Commission has brought forth its plan of railroad consolidation. The plan now published groups the railroads of the country into twenty-one systems, including the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, making nineteen domestic groups. A milestone in the history of the East-this the year 1930 may prove to be. Few in the Occident outside of England realize how portentous the next few months may become. They understand vaguely that there is unrest throughout India; that Afghanistan has just been somewhat pacified after a bloody civil war; that in Palestine the bitterness grows between English, Jews, and Arabs; that in Iraq, Syria, and a dozen other countries the natives are outspoken against the mandate system or the overlordship of white men, and are more and more determined to free themselves of any foreign yoke or guidance, saying that they, too, prefer, if necessary, bad government of their own to good government by foreigners.