13 FEBRUARY 1926, page 2

The Debate Was Continued On Friday, February 5th, When Mr.

Dalton went a good deal further than Mr. Snowden. Mr. Lloyd George had evidently been thinking hard on the relations of Liberalism and Labour, and when his turn came it was......

Sir Arthur Steel-maitland, The Minister Of Labour,...

unemployment was now less than in 1924 and that wages had risen, not fallen. Then without any heat he argued that the whole problem was not one of political theory at all but of......

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- On Tuesday the French Prime Minister, M. Briand-, took the step which had been expected for weeks. He informed the Chamber -that if the Finance Bill were not sent up to the......

Herr Held Was, Of Course, Greatly To Blame, But Lie

was speaking with little more than the authority of a dis- gruntled politician who has seen the particular brand of nationalism which Bavaria cultivates wither under the......

Another Sign To The Good Is That Herr Stresemann, Speaking

in the Reichstag on Tuesday, answered Signor Mussolini with a calculated moderation. Herr Stresemann strongly rebuked Herr Held for his gratuitous interference with the conduct......

It Cannot Be Denied, However, That There Are Lions On

Germany's path to the League. Spain, Poland and Brazil are said to be demanding that if Germany joins the Council they also should become permanent members. - We see it......

* * Herr Stresemann Nevertheless Could Not Bring Himself To

disbelieve in all the alleged facts about Italianization, and he declared (in words which would have been better left unsaid at such a moment) that the German minority in......

The Socialist Amendment To The Address In -the House Was

moved -on Thursday, February 4th. Mr. Snowden, who moved it, deplored the Government's treatment of unemployment and was rash enough to use the boomerang argument that the test......

* Germany Has Only To Wait A Little Longer In

order to be able to plead for herself under the most advantageous conditions that are yet possible—we mean when she becomes a member of the Council of the League. She has......