The New Review November 1941

THE ACTUAL POSITION The successive defeats of the Soviet armies were costly ; they appear to have left the Soviet with fewer well-trained and well-equipped divisions than the enemy ; the loss of industrial potential (mines and factories) is said to have reached up to seventy per cent of the national production ; even the railways and roads which brought the Baku oil to the Soviet war machine and a [...] The adoption of the Hindu ritual without comprehending the symbolism and inner value of its religion the gradual loss of the old ideals of morality the break-down of the caste and family systems without assuming equally or more valuable substitutes a higher standard of living and increased claims of sharing the pleasures of life with the more privileged classes a simultaneous lowering of wage [...] In Europe it was the war of 1914-19 which promoted the fragmentation of the Ottoman Hapsburg and Romanoff empires into its 'Successor States.' The Ottoman Empire had indeed been the 'sick man of Europe' for a hundred years already ; its disintegration began in 1821 with the Greek war of liberation which led to the setting up of an independent kingdom of Greece in 1830 and the revolt of the Otto [...] When however the impoverishment of the countryside in the 16th century called for some new organ to grant the poor relief formerly discharged by the Church (now dispossessed of all her goods) an Elizabethan statute of 1601 created the 'parish' and charged it with the duty of relieving the destitute of its locality—though of course under the control of the Justices of the Peace. [...] POWERS 395 The devious route and the long time taken by this process of devolution is typically English : and moreoves une might add without going into all the details that in r.ddition to the above the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835 and 1882 the first Public Health Act in 1848 the Education Act of 1870 the Local Government Acts of 1894 and 1929 besides a number of minor st