10 OCTOBER 1931, page 11

• " What -mr. Macdonald Has Been Unable To Do

he hopes that general elections will bring about. That is showing an extraordinary trust in the twenty-eight millions who make up the electorate, the bulk of whom do not......

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" One of these two things must happen : either the Elections will simply serve to vary slightly the proportion of the parties represented in the Chamber, and then one 'cannot......

" There Are Any Number Of Possible Ways Of Balancing

production and consumption. Some people to-day are disposed to seek the restoration of that balance by a contraction of world trade activities, by reduction of prices,......

" We Are Left With The Question Whether The City

can main. taro its traditional supremacy as the chief centre of the world's gold market, or can expect possibly a return to gold parity either at the old or a new rate. In the......

" It Is Right To Emphasize Another Interesting Point Of

the British crisis : the fact that the Dominions and other remote parts of the English-speaking world are taking the very slightest or no part at all in the Mother Country's......

Through European Eyes

[Nothing could be more useful for Great Britain than to see how her difficulties are regarded abroad. We shall therefore publish during the next few weeks a representative......

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" Quite apart from sundry psychological factors which play an important role in critical periods like ours, leaving aside also considerations of the foreign political situation......

" In Its Official And Semi-official Gatherings, The...

come to the conclusion that the tariff question is likely to wear a different aspect in the more or less distant future. There is a desire for international conversations on......

" If Ever There Were A Constructive Opposition Policy It

was that revealed here in England when the Liberals prevented the English people from throwing themselves headlong into an experiment which would be simply a gamble on the whole......