Abstract

Editorials

The article presents political updates of the world as of October 24, 1907. A half-apologetic air appears in the very act drawn up and adopted last Thursday to summarize the work and mark the close of The Hague, the Netherlands, Conference. It speaks of the constant "desire" of the delegates to meet the hopes centered in their deliberations, yet has but a meager array of actual achievements to submit. In another update, in the discussions to which the illness of the Austrian Emperor has given rise; the remarkable feature is the absence of the pessimistic tone with which it has been customary to debate the future of the Dual Monarchy. That the termination of the present reign must bring about the dissolution of the Hapsburg territories had become a commonplace of European politics.