Compensation Act litigation, 334 et seq.; question of Divorce Re- form, 337; its bearing on morality, 340–1; Land Registry of Titles, 341 ; economy should be enforced
in law as a national duty, 342 English Banking, 104; criticism of
English bankers, 104; principles of management, 105; assistance for trades, 105, 106; financing of exports, 107; working methods of exporters, 107 et seq.; wat and settlement of accounts, I10; co-operation between manufacturer and banker, III; its effect upon world's trade, III; dangers of foreign trade, 112, 113; petition amongst banks, 114 ; Accepting Houses of London, 114, 115; banking facilities for home trade, 115, 116; methods of financing, 116, 117; policy of
bankers as against critics, 118 English Railways, The Future of,
84; relation of railways to public authority, 84; Government con- trol, 84, 85; financial working, 85; Board of Trade Railway Returns, 86; increase of wages, 87, 88; effect of war upon traffic, 88; State responsibility, 88, 89; dissatisfaction of railway policy, 89, 90; Royal Commission en- quiry, 90; comparison between passenger and goods traffic, 91; effect of mileage on costs of work- ing, 92, 93; foreign methods, 93, 94 ; reforms necessary, 95; Government support, 95, 96 ; economy in operating expenses, 96; abolition of competition, 97; combination of systems, 98; State ownership, 99; political influence
management, 99 et seq.; Government's financial liabilities, 102; comparison with Mexican system, 102, 103 ; need for recon- struction, 103
law of supply and demand, 198; its effect on the price of food, 199; factors that count, 199; Government interference, 200; administrative help to poor, 201; bonus to lower-paid em- ployees, 201 ; taxation as a means of restriction, 202 et seq. ; striction of supplies affects the poor, 202, 203 ; economic waste of rationing system, 203; difficulty in labour, 204; agricultural work for women, 205; maximum prices lessens supply, 206 ; Mr. Prothero's scheme, 207; heavy taxation
37, 38; King Constantine orders shooting of marines, 39; Italians' antagonism to Greece, 39, 40; nationalism and its effect upon Balkan problem, 40, 41; Veni- zelos' redemption of Greece, 41 et seq.; removal of King Con- stantine, 44; proclamation of
Greek Republic, 44 Grey, Viscount, 28, 35, 228
Haggard, Sir Rider, report
ance of keeping control of vital industries in our hands, 382–3; possible action of neutral countries during war, 382; committee to consider the commercial and in- dustrial policy to be adopted after the war, 383-4; reasons for preferential tariffs, 384; Dominions Royal Commission, 385-6; natural resources of the self-governing Dominions, 386–7; principle of an imperial com- mercial policy, 387–8; improve- ment of harbours, 388; inter- change of school-teachers, 389; creation of an Imperial Develop- ment Board, 389; dangers of a centralised control of government, 390 ; scheme to pay off National Debt by developing resources of the Empire, 390–1; Government control compared with private enterprise, 390—3 ; defects of State enterprise, 390–3; trade restric- tions of the old colonial system, 394-5; effect on the value of colonial produce, 396–8; sugar, 396; cattle industry in Ireland, 397; wool, 397; effect of fiscal policy on Ireland's commerce, 398–9; Free Trade, 399 ; defects of fiscal system on internal trade, 399–400 ; benefit of Free Trade to Ireland, 401-3; abolition of the Corn Laws, 401; protection and imperial preference, 403-4 : protectionist spirit an element of discord, 405; economic conditions of Empire make fiscal unity almost impossible, 405; comparison with United States and Germany, 405– 6; India, 406; German com- mercial penetration, 407 ; nomic prosperity due to the
Prussia, Poland, and Ireland, 158;
re-establishment of independence of Poland, 158, 159; failure of Germany's policy of intimidation, 160 ; suggested parallel between Poland and Ireland, 161; failure of conquest, 162; constitutional relations of England and Ireland, 162, 163; cause of rebellions, 163, 164; religion a stumbling- block, 163, 164 ; Cromwell's policy, 164; Treaty of Limerick, 164; Irish Parliament deprived of in- dependence, 164; restrictions re- moved and commercial freedom regained, 165; legislative union formed, 166; Catholic Emancipa- tion, 166; the Great Famine and its effect on emigration, 166, 167; relations between tenants and landlords, 167; English parlia- ments' attempt to solve agri- cultural problems, 168; religious question, 169; Home Rule Act, 169; relation of English policy to Prussian treatment of Poland 170, 171 ; formation of Poland, 171 ; reactionary policy of Prussia, 172, 173; insurrection of Poles, 173; Bismarck's Polish policy, 174 ; his persistent persecution, 175 ; ultimate failure to Germanise Poland, 176; Anglo-Irish contrast,
176, 177 Puaux, René. L'Armée Anglaise sur
le Continent, 45, 47 et seq.
Soldiers, The Re-Education of Dis-
abled, 119. See Disabled Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Associ-
ation, The Work of, 139; allow ances granted to families of fight- ing men insufficient, 139 ; lack of properly organised system, 139 ; National Relief Fund, 139; state of confusion in the Paymaster's Department, 140, 141; leads to distress in many families, 140, 141; War Office attitude to the Association, 141 ; fictitious claims for allowances, 142; work en- tailed, 143; voluntary support, 143 ; difficulties of administration, 144, 145; morality and marriage, 146;, its production of hardships, 147; Poor Law Authorities, 147; care of motherless children, 148; care of soldiers' wives visiting London, 148; co-operation with Travellers' Aid Society, 148; ad- ministrative control of various funds, 149; audit control in connexion with war relief work, 150; methods of investigative work, 150, 151 ; effect of war on financial position of soldiers' wives, 151, 152; press agitation, 152, 153; methods of working, 153 ; formation of Statutory Committee, 154 ; effects of change upon relief work, 156; Ministry of Pensions
formed, 157 Steed, H. Wickham, Austria and
Europe, 1. See Austria Suarès, André, Angleterre, 45, 47 Sutherland, A., The Origin and
Growth of the Moral Instinct,
Quiller-Couch, A., Swinburne, 249.
See Swinburne
Railways, The Future of English, 84.
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