10 MAY 1957, page 4

Reason For Optimism

A MONTH after the Budget is of course too soon /A to make an accurate check on whether the economy is already taking the course the Chan- cellor intended for it this year.......

Many Europes

E UROPEAN integration over the last weeks has made rather a confused picture. It is hard to resist the impres- sion that there has been a good deal of jostling and side-......

The Strings Are False

rr HE alacrity with which the Amalgamated I Engineering Union has taken up the offer of a wage increase with strings, rather than a smaller unconditional increase, is at first......