Modern Review March 1927

It is true that in the history of the civic evoltion of all countries the widening of the political franchise has been always attended` with grave risks; but the fact must be taken to heart seriously by our leaders that the political sense of the electorate must be developed if any real progress is to be suds The ultimate control of the Councils is in the hands of the magus and the type of the [...] Hut it-may be mentioned by the way that they have the effrontery to exhibit stolen goods among the interesting models of famous passenger-ships shown by the White Star Line (in the Palace of Engineering) there are those of the "Majestic " the world's largest liner (56 500 tons) formerly the "Bismark" of the Hamburg-America Line and of the "Homeric" (31 600 tons) formerly the "Colombus" of the N [...] The Palace of Engineering the Palace of Industry and the Amusement Park costitute the bulk of the English half of the Exhibition. [...] Colonies: and Dependenc'es overseas." First of all the purpose for which Wembley was started was to bring home to the Empire a deeper sense of the kinship of the peoples of the League of British Nations and therewith to strengthen the sentimental ties of tradition and service that bind tgether the many and wide-spread units of the whole. [...] From the four corners of the earth they have come with the big liners of the various shipping groups ; they have come from the uttermost parts of the maw from the whole of the English-speaking world.