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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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reme posi-tion in Egypt, and with Frances ally support-ing at Constantinople the British lion in the ter-ritorial claims which now make sure Biitishpossession of the Suez Canal, the beginning ofthe end of the Turk in Europe would seem tobe in sight. No matter what form of civilizedgovernment shall come out of the Russian mael-strom, the Muscovite people will no doul)t soonagain dream their old-time dream about the pos-session of that city on the Bosporus from whichcame their civilization and their relio-ion. •r^ o . ^ 1he really siii;nificant phase of the The Postponed -,. . • F^ . . ^ French r reuch revolution that was pre- Revolution. jj^^^^^ f^^. ^^^^ j (^^^j ^yj ^^,^ ^^^^ place) was, not that there were strikes, violence,and some attempts at organized disturbancethroughout the republic, but that these disorderswere promptly and effectually suppressed, andthat more serious disorder was anticipated andprevented. It is beyond dispute that there are THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 655
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THE LAW AND THE STRIKER IN PARIS ON MAY 1. (M. Louis Lepine, Paris chief of police, leaving the French Labor Exchange.) always considerable elements of disorder iuFrance, and particularly in Paris. It is alsotrue that the recent miners strike, followingupon the terrible accident at the Courrieresmine, other labor troubles, and the strong feel-ing against some of the governments agents fortheir perhaps unnecessary vigor in taking theinventories of church property as required bythe new separation law, had given the discon-tents throughout the republic a chance to exposethe Sarrien ministry to fierce criticism and ridi-cule, and had suggested to some of the Socialistleaders the possibility of a powerful demonstra-tion against the government. In the third place,it is undoubtedly true that the present govern-ment of France, with M. Georges Clemenceauas the recognized power, is undoubtedly in sym-pathy with many of the radical ideas and sen-timents animating the working classes. Butthat the

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