14 JANUARY 1938, page 3

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of Modem Politics That

while in many specific cases the Labour Party is probably successful in expressing the mind of the majority of the electors, such success does not bring its corresponding reward......

The Liberals Have Never Done Better For Themselves Than When

they chose Sir Archibald Sinclair to be their leader. Since the retirement of Lord Baldwin he is the most attractive figure of all the party heads. He has added greatly to his......

Nevertheless The Labour Party Has A Long Way To Travel

before it is even within sight of a majority. In 1935 the National candidates polled 11,704,745 as compared with Labour's 8,326,131. It is argued that a turnover of a little......

* * * * M. Goga And Rumania The Immediate

results of M. Goga's appointment as Prime Minister of Rumania, as opposed to his pronounce- ments before attaining office, have so far been less alarming than was at first to be......

* * * Next Week's " Spectator " Next Week's

Spectator will include an article of particular interest by Bernard Shaw, and a defence, by D. W. Brogan, Of the American film against the British, to be followed in the......

Other Things Being Equal It Is Certainly Wasteful To Leave

potential wealth unexploited. Sir Roy Robinson, chairman of the Forestry Commission, said, in a paper which he read on Monday to the Chartered Surveyors' Institution, that he......

The Parliamentary Scene Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

not a good year for the Parliamentary Labour Party. It reached the lowest depths of depression in July when the decision was taken to abstain on the service estimates. Since the......

Referendum And War The Rejection By The American Congress Of

the so-called Ludlow resolution has relieved President Roosevelt of con- siderable anxiety. The aim of the resolution, which, if adopted, would probably have necessitated an......