Among the most important of the activities for the April—June quarter have been those in connection with the Children's Committees. Since our last issue there has been no further meeting of the Central Committee for the Welfare of Coloured Children in Great Britain, but much hop

use freegrown sugar? Where was the philanthropy in encouraging the Brazilian slave trade while bewailing the fate of the British slaves and emancipating them? The salvation of a few thousand slaves in the British colonies meant the crucifixion of millions in the jungles of Afric

The Indian National congress, in the course of its historic evolution has passed thorough the different stages of a struggle for Independence rather rapidly, and now stands at the phase when it insists on the liberty of the Indian people as a free nation and at the same time off

to the deplorable condition of these Islands and also extracted from the Secretary of State in Parliament and from the country at large some remarkable confessions and yet the machinery of relief has been so slow that unrest still continues. The League of Coloured Peoples has pr

The British Parliament and the British Empire. The debate on the Colonial Office estimates in the House of Commons on June 7th was unusually interesting. The attendance at this annual overhauling of Empire problems was as usual small, but speeches from both sides of the House in

Beneath these Crystal Palace towers This Mourning Maiden, bronzed with age, From out the midst of storied time Proclaims the sculptor's subtle art. Life-like she clasps her fingers firm, Bewildered by a changing world Whose their everlasting seal Upon this Maiden's brow have set

KRISHNA MENON. At this time of deepening world crisis, the role of the movements of national independence as in India become more significant than ever before. Imperialism unfolds itself in its phase of bare conquest to the eyes of the average decent person living in these islan

We are apt to be a great deal too complacent about our Colonial administration: complacent because we do not know the facts. Archdeacon W. E. Owen, who has worked in East Africa for 35 years, has been making it his business to see that such facts are known—in so far as they conc

Dr. H. A. MOODY, \1.1)., London. 6, Walpole Street, P.O. Box 243, Freetown, Sierra Leone 28th July, 1938. Sir, I am sending to you by today's mail this Report regarding the activities of the League of Coloured People in Sierra Leone, together with my observations and recommendat