416 INDEX

Bolsheviks, 226

Borough, 66, 268, 273, 275-277
„ , County, 122, 277, 282,

285, 297
Borough, Metropolitan, 175, 225,

325—334
Borough, Municipal, 277

„ , Parliamentary, 175-176,

191, 278
Borough Council, 176, 239, 264,

275-279, 281, 282, 286, 291, 300,

307

Borstal, 256
Bournemouth, 294
Bradlaugh, Charles, 143
Brahmins, 342
Brazil, 382, 392
Bridgeman, W. (later Lord), 24

,, Committee, 103
Britain, 10, 13-15, 86, 108, 169,

214-216, 219, 220, 261, 297, 317,

340. 356, 380-381* 383^ 3&4> 39*>
„ 3?3>395 J .
British Broadcasting Corporation,

67, 104-105, 258
British Commonwealth, 14, 48, 341,

357> 359> 377, 38o, 395
British Constitution, 18-34, 140,

196, 229-230, 260, 351, 376
British Empire, 13-14, 48, 201, 203,

339-358, 379. 38o
British North America Act 1867,

27, 361-362
Brougham, Lord 44
Buddhists, 342
Budget, 20, 105,118, 163-169

„ , League of Nations, 39<>-39*
Bulgaria, 385, 398
Bureaucracy, 77-84
Burke, Edmund, 200, 205
Burma, 350, 352 '
Bumham Committee, 127
" Business Government," 208, 210
By-elections, 194-195
Byzantine Empire, 217

Cabinet, 32, 53-6~9> 165, 223, 315,

376
Cadogan Committee, 254, 255

Canada, 27,. 359-363> 374, 393
Canberra, 364

Candidates, Parliamentary, 187-195

Canvassing, 188-189

Cape Colony, 367

Capital Levy, 172

Capital Punishment, 245, 253-254

Capitalism, 86, 115, 197-200, 201-

202, 206,224, 304
Carnarvon Boroughs, 176
Celts, 15

Censure, Vote of, 26, 146
Ceylon, 352
Chamberlain, Joseph, 201

„ , Neville, 172, 295
Chancery Division, 239-241, 252
Change, need for, 11-12, 215, 402
Channel Islands, 94
Charles I, 30, 144, 149, 160, 324

„ II, 31, 44, 54, 275
Charters, 275-278
Chartism, 202
Chequers, 65
Chiang Kai-shek, 388
Chief Constable, 274-275
Child Welfare, 283-284, 303
Children and Young Persons Acts,

255, 288

Chiltern Hundreds, 194
China, 8, 324, 388, 389* 392
Christians, 7, 342, 347
Church of England, 3, 46, 178,241,

247,270,286

Church, mediaeval, 3, 241, 379
„ , Roman Catholic, 46, 178,

286,369-370,372
Churchill, Winston, 123
Civil List, 48, 88, 161
Civil Service, 39, 64, 66, 70-84, 87,

165, 216, 218, 312
Civil Service Clerical Association, 76

„ „ Commission^ 76

„ War, I7th century, 30, 160
Closure, 156-157, 211
Coal Mines Acts, 111-112, 133
Coalition, 45, 182-183, 207
Cobbett, William, 331
Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865,

3533 3«>o
Colonies, 56,352^355* 3&>> 375> 380,

402

Comet, the, 89
Commissions, Army, 43
Common Law, 231-236,251