13 MAY 1949, page 3

At Westminster

T HE Steel Bill is the last of the great measures of national- isation which this Government is introducing, and it was not surprising that it received its third reading on......

Miners' Coal

It is perfectly possible that a fair solution could be found for the strike in the Lancashire coalfield. That is not to say that the miners' claim for free coal for their own......

Tidier Drinking

• The earlier stages of the Licensing Bill were overshadowed by the controversy concerning the extension of State control of the sale of alcohol to the new towns, in which......

Mr. James Pope-hennessy Having Relinquished The Literary...

the Spectator in order to devote himself entirely to writing, Mr. Derek Hudson has been appointed Literary Editor as from May r6th. Mr. Hudson, who has been for many years on......