14 AUGUST 1953, page 4

French Strikes

" France is not ripe for anarchy," said M. Laniel hopefully as he introduced the economic decrees in which his Government had embodied its emergency reforms. Whereupon French......

The Final Test ' The Major Problem Of The Fifth Test

Match between England and Australia is not the form or fitness of Hutton, Harvey, Lindwall or Bedser, but the difficulty of accommodating the half-million people who want to......

Exit Piccioni

The failure of Signor Piccioni to form an Italian govern- ment was the failure to span an ocean by a suspension bridge. Piccioni himself is a right-wing Christian Democrat and......

Home Truths • For Engineers

The thirty-eight organisations which make up the Confedera- tion of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions are asking for an increase of fifteen per cent. in the wages of their one......

The Canadian Election

A Liberal victory in the Canadian election was certain, but Mr. St. Laurent could scarcely have expected to return to power with his former overwhelming majority reduced by ten......