Welsh Journals

military measures provided by the said Article 16 must be enacted only by virtue of a law adopted by the majority demanded for the revision of the Constitution. (3) Enterprises of a military char- acter in violation of the present regulations are considered as crimes. A special law shall deter- mine the penalties applicable to the persons who are responsible, and the form of procedure which shall be taken against them. The "dictatorial parenthesis" in the story of the United Kingdom of the Serbs, the Croats, and the Slovenes is not without its interest to Wales. In 1927 the Mayor of the Municipal Council of Zemun in Yugo-Slavia, sent the reply of the Zemun Schools to the Welsh Children's Message to His Majesty's Vice-Consul in Bel- grade, who transmitted the documents to Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, in turn, sent them to the President of the Board of Education, and through the Welsh Department they finally and safely reached Wales. In 1928 as many as 72 replies came direct from all parts of Yugo- Slavia. They came, some of them, in the form of beautiful illuminated addresses; some replied in their own language, some in French, and in German, and some-in very good Eng- lish. One of the replies in English was from Sarajevo-a place immortalised in the annals of the war. Here is the text: — "Dear sir. Our school upholds the ancient and worthy tradition of the Orthodox Church, and ever prays to God in the words of our own Church here- May the countries of all the world be joined together in unity.' This prayer coincides in spirit with your summons, and we send you in answer our very sincere greetings and best wishes. Yours truly, B. Adamovitch, General Director of Russki Pjidetski Sarajevo. Bosnia. [ugoslavia." Amongst the replies is one from the boys and girls in the Lvcee of Shabac-the Serbian Verdun -and one from M. Milan M Petrovich, the Inspector of Education for the country of Skou- YOU noticed first the glory in my hold- Beech branches of October, burning gold Then came with flashing, tender, gay surprise The light of recognition in your eyes. O clear as speech, 0 passing swift and sweet The thought your eyes sent, and mine ran to meet: "So it is you?" said yours; "I might have guessed madia, Kragniverac. "It is with pleasure," he writes in English, "that we have received your message. I am glad to be able to express and to send you our best assurance that we also shall teach our children to try to settle all international disputes without war." The originals of the messages from the schools in Yugoslavia, as well as from over 28 other countries, are available, and will be sent to schools in Wales on application to the office of the Welsh League of Nations Union, 10, Museum Place, Cardiff. The original message, in most cases, is well worth framing; the real value, however, is in the link that it forges between a school in Wales and a school abroad or over- seas. The time will come when no Welsh school will feel satisfied unless it is in touch with a school in some other land than its own. Elfed lectured in London recently on Hiraethog. "I want," remarked Elfed, "the voice of that period to reach Wales to-day." It was the period, as he went on to explain, when Henry Richard was pioneering on the Continent of Europe, and William Rees (Hiraethog) was championing the cause of the small nations-of dismembered Poland and of Kossuth's Hungary. THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD. Whitsuntide.- (i\ Seventh annual conference of the Welsh -eague of Nations Union at Wrex- ham. (ii) Thirteenth annual conference of the Federation of League of Nations Societies at Madrid. July 25-August 4.-Congress of World Federation of Education Associations at Geneva. August 5 — 9. — Conference of English-speaking Musicians at Lausanne. August 8 — 21. — Congress of the International Union for the New Education in Denmark. Particulars from the New Education Fellowship, 11, Tavistock Square, London. September 2. — Tenth Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva. ANOTHER GLIMPSE Who found such loveliness, who loved it best!" "And I," mine answered, "need have had no fear Lest beauty pass, and you not hold it dear!" LESLEY GREY.