28 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 4

No doubt international bodies sometimes want to meet elsewhere than

in London, but, as someone has pointed out, Paris, with the cost of living what it is known to be in that capital, is a strange place to choose for the World Trade Union Conference. I am told by an English resident in Paris that if you know where to go (which the average stranger, of course, does not) it is possible now to get an unsubstantial meal in a restaurant, without drinks, for the equiva- lent of about cos. But bed and breakfast alone (and very little of a breakfast at that) runs to far more than the average delegate gets for his full day's expenses. Conferences on the Continent of Europe at present raise difficult problems. * * * *