13 MAY 1938, page 2

Last Week President Roosevelt's Prestige Appeared To Have...

nadir. Of his most important Bills some had been defeated and some shelved. In Congress the Conservative Democrats were jubilant at his defeat and both they, and the La......

Abyssinia At Geneva The Discussions On Abyssinia At The...

of Nations Council will not have taken place till these words are in print. No one can hope that they will be anything but painful, and the only person likely to emerge from......

The South African Election The Union Of South Africa Holds

its eighth General Election next week. No great change is to be expected, though a certain interest is added to the polling by the fact that the United South Africa Party, which......

Poland Continues Her Efforts To Achieve " National Unity "

under an authoritarian regime opposed by the great majority of the population ; no doubt the Government is so persistent because Poland, like other Eastern European States,......

* * * * The Orissa Dilemma There Should Be

universal recognition of the self-sacrificing public spirit shown by Sir John Hubback, the Governor of Orissa, in forgoing his leave in order to avert a political crisis in that......

-the Markham Disaster The Disaster At Markham Colliery,...

filled everyone in the country with sympathy for the widows and children of the 79 men who have died one of the most terrible of deaths. But sympathy is not enough. Coal mining......