10 MARCH 1939, page 3

The Happy Prisoner Talking Of The New Housing Programme For

prisons, in the House on Monday Sir Samuel Hoare said that on a site already secured two distinct institutions would be accom- modated—the women's prison to take the place of......

Sir Philip Sassoon Was Hunted On Both Days, Because The

Vienna Legation has been sold to the Nazi Flying Corps for what, to the House, seemed a bargain price. The First Commissioner of Works, from the days when he was at the Air......

A Large House Seemed Strangely Hostile To Mr. Hore- Belisha,

when he began his speech on the Army Estimates on Wednesday. The first part, which dealt with high strategy, he took at too fast a pace for the House fully to comprehend. The......

The Change Of Feeling In The House Over Defence Is

remarkable. Sir Kingsley Wood comes in for the loudest praise. There is no doubt that Mr. Lloyd George's esti- mate of him as the Government's ablest administrator is justified.......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

Government has been in power since 1931 and another ten years of office is by no means unlikely. What will be the character of Parliament in 1950? Members who were in the House......

A Plea For The Theatre In This Time Of Grim

preoccupations and commitments it is particularly gratifying to hear the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer express sympathy with those who are protesting against the effect of the......

Empire Shipping The Emphasis That The President Of The Board

of Trade laid on the vital needs of Empire shipping was timely and might with profit be followed up. Strategy is one, and a very urgent consideration. It is true, as Mr. Stanley......