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GROWING "RIGHT ” OPPOSITION.
ATTEMPTS AT SUPPRESSION,
Moscow (P.)-Expulsions, exiles and other so-called administra- tive menantes" against the growing Right opposition within the Com- munist ranks are clearly fore shadowed in hundreds of resolu tione and speeches at the local Party conferences now under way throughout the Soviet Union.
These gatherings are a prelude to the important national conference of the All-Union Communist Party, scheduled for the acar future, where decisive action against the Right dissidents' is expected.
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It is not at all certain though that men lika Bukharin and Tomsky are in any way connected with such contraband publications. At a time
when they are fighting for their political lives, such action would amount to political suicide and they are not likely to have, taken it.
Illegal Literature.
A good deal of illegal. literature. has already been shorn of much of it must be remembered, is spread Eis power, although he is secretary-by individuals, without the know- general of the Communist Interna-ledge or consent of the lenders. tional He is, for example, no Much of it, also, is just spurious. longer editor of the official party. organ, Pravda, which he headed until the rift between himself and the Stalin group became serious.
Tomsky is still President of the Trade Union Council. It is widely reported, however, that be is no longer active on his post, and that actual leadership of the trade union movement has been taken over hy M. Kaganovitch, one of Stalin's | close supporters. /*--
How high the administrative arm of the Kremlin will reach remains . to be seen. The tone of resolutions," however, bodes no good for Nicholas Bukharin, Tomsky and other pro- manent Bolsheviks whose names are linked by common report with the Right opposition. Almost always they specify that Rights must be suppressed regardless how highly placed they may be in the party or in the government.
The Political Eureau. Bukharin and Tomsky are among the "Big Nine," with Joseph Stalin at the head, who constitute the Political Bureau Whether they will still be members of this all- powerful body after the national conference is among the most urgent of the political questions here.
Bukharin, it is generally, knowA,
Becoming Organised,
The local conferences all attest that the Rights, until recently scattered and jeaderless, gradually becoming organired, very are much along the lines of the Trotsky opposition before the exiles of January 1928. It is charged that the Rights of various cities have established underground contacts and are beginning to disseminate illegal literature attacking the Stalin leadership.
A furious internal struggle is an opportunity for anti-government elements to add to the turmoil by spreading forged oppositionist leaf- leta. ".
Often, too, loyal supporters of the ruling faction are tempted to spread lurgeries to worded that they put the supposed authors, whether Trotskyists or Rights, in an un- favourable light. Many of the sup posed underground Trotsky leaflets were clearly faked and filled with language obviously intended to dis credit the former War Minister in the eyes of workers. The game of which Russia has generations of underground literature is one in
practice.
contending that the Kremlin's The Right opposition has been policies are too drastic. It asks for a let down in the pace of indus trialization and in the fight against the richer pensante. Some of the leaders, especially certain Red pro- The latter is the most significant fessors of economy, argue that the of the charges. At the same time present. programme amicunts to that Leon Trotsky is writing feudal exploitation of the peasan- articles abroad characterizing try by the city population. Stalin as D Napoleonic usurper." As in the earlier stages of the contraband Right leaflets are said | Trotsky opposition, many of the to call Stalin a dictator " and a dissidents are offering their re- "Ghengis Khan.";
signations from government posts.
ICELAND PARLIAMENT'S CELEBRATION.
FIRST FORMED IN 930 AD.
12 CONSTITUENCIES AND 36 DELEGATES,
[Exclusive to the "Daily Fress."},
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UP)-The Commonwealth Legislative Assem bly of Iceland, the Althing as it is called, and which is claimed to have been the first of parliaments, will celebrate its thousandth an niversary in the summer of 1930.. Already Icelanders in America have booked two liners to bring them to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, for the occasion.
The Althing was hrat formed in the year 980, about half a century after the Scandinavians had begun to colonise Iceland and had found the remains of the Irish hermits who had been there before them. A certain Ulajotr, a settler of royal descent, decided that it was time Iceland had a code of laws. He returned home to Denmark, in 927 rand came back to Iceland in 980
with his code.
The Court of the Afthing. He was
able to persuade his fellow squatters" to divide them selves into twelve constituencies and to elect in each constituency three delegates. The thirty-six members of the. Althing thus elect- ed used to meet each year, in June, at a place came to be known as the Thing-valla, and which was chosen partly because it was at
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the junction of the tracks that crossed the desert of the interior, but more because it could be had for nothing, since the land had been taken from the former owner, who had committed murder.
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twelve and the lower house twenty- four members“
The Thingvalli plain, where the Althing will meet again in its thou. sandth year, is famous for its wild beauty. It is eight miles long and six miles wide, with mountains at one end and a lake at the 'other,
The Althing meets now in a less romantic but more businesslike, fashion in a room at Reykjavik. It met with fair regularity through the centuries till 1720, and in 1843 an advisory committee. It was not it was re-established, but only as till 1874, when Iceland was given again ter constitution, that the glory, and, finally in 1918 the act Althing was reviewed in its old
of union between the two sovereign states of Denmark and Iceland was passed.
No Minister of War!
The Althing made laws and estab lished the court of the Altting," which tried all disputes. A speak er or "lawgiver" was appointed, whose duty it was to recite publicly The Althing now has a cabinet the whole law. To him, too, all which consists of three members who were in need of a legal opinion the Premier, who is at the same or of information as to what was time, Minister of Justice, Ecclesias. and was not law had a right to tical Affaire, and of Public Instruc turn during the meeting of the tion: the Minister of Industry, and Althing.
To him a sort of presidency or Minister of War! precedence at the Althing was con From the beginning it was a ceded, but with a care which marks different olganisation from the i how jealously the your republic Anglo-Saxon “things”—the house. guarded itself against bestowing too great power on its chief officer, he was expressly excluded from all share in the executive.
A Strict Republic. Under the code of Ulajots, Ice- land was a republic in the strictest sense. Any man over twenty-five- so long as he paid his taxes and had not been in prison-had the right to stand for election. Even tually the Althing was divided into two houses, the upper house having
the Minister of Trade. There is no
thing, for example, whence we got our word busting for these seem to have been more like com mittees than parliaments. It seems also to have been much more Highly-developed than the British embryo of parliament, the Witan- gemot.
The Althing dates from the cen. fury of the greatest of sagas. Scholars say that the saga which tells of the discovery of Viland- America-is a little younger than the Althing.
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (April-4.)
Annual general meeting, H.E. W.G. and M.C.L. Helena May Institute, 10.30 L.m.):
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World Theatre: "Mi Brewster's Millions."
Star Theatre: "Under the Black Eagle."",
Banvard Musical Comedy Co.. Queen's Theatre: "The Awaken-Tip Toes," Star Theatre, 8.13 p.m. ing."
Tea Dances; B.K. Hotel and World Theatre: Sally, Irene, Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m. and Mary."
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m..
U.S.R.C. Dance, 9.15 p.m."-
Star Theatre: Johnny get your hair cut."
Banvard Musical Comedy Co.: "Oh Kay," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.p
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Danca: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Saturday. (April 6.) Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Football-Senior Division:
European Mail:-Inward: Kowloon v. Royal Artillery. Europe vid Negapatam (Diomed). Outward: Europe vid Siberis (Hector); 2.30 p.m.
Friday,
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Hockey: Y.M.CA. 2nd XI. v. H.K. Club "A" King's Fark, 5
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Queen's Theatre: “The Awaken- ing.
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Ted Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.20 p.m.
Dinner Dances: Lane Crawford's Restaurant, 8
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European MailsOutward? Europe via, Marseilles (Hakusan Maru), 9.30 in.
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Cricket:-Division 1.: Hong Kong Rest. Division II.: Kow- loon v. Hong Kong O.C. (F), H.K. Electric v. Indians (F), Civil Ser-Term Begins. vice University (F).
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