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Britain's Largest Industry I An agreed policy for agriculture removed from all political controversy was urged by Sir John Barlow speaking as a leading industrialist at a...

Mr. de Valera's Victory Mr. de Valera-for whom the General Election in Eire could not have been more favourably timed-has won a substantial victory, his party' emerging with a...

Colonial Development I There were two aspects of the Colonial question on which Colonel Oliver Stanley dwelt in his statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday. He spoke of...

Electoral Reform The Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform has reported on three out of four of the questions referred to it, and it is satisfactory that a majority of the...

SIR,-Mr. Arnold Lunn, calling for a livelier Right propaganda to counter allegedly unfair attacks from the Left, gratuitously produces three " quotations " from the sayings of...

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE I SIR,-The future position of voluntary hospitals is raised by Mr. Paine in your last issue. He thinks it is a bad thing that we should, as he puts it,...

SIR,-Mr. Malone asks, " What proportion of Socialist M.P-s . . | I compared with the despised Tories have ever, in a combatant unit . . . risked or given their lives for their...

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IFORTY-EIGHT hours after the launching of the first attacks on the beaches of Normandy the British official report was that NEWS OF THE WEEk operations were running to time...

The Retirement of King Victor The fall of Rome brings with it the fulfilmcnt of King Victor Emmanuel's promise to transfer the royal powers to his son as soon as the Allies...

Organising an Invasion In these days when everyone knows something of the meaning of "total war" it hardly needs demonstrating that masses of trained men cannot be thrown on to...

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AMERICAN SOLDIERS SIR,-Soon after reading Mr. Harold Nicolson's comments on this subject, I heard the following story, which I believe to be true, although I doubt whether the...

INDIA SINCE CRIPPS SIR,-I try to observe the rule that an author should not defend himself against his reviewers, but Mr. H. G. Rawlinson says some things about my book, India...

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