14 JULY 1939, page 3

The House Has Filled Up This Week Only At Question

Time. Already it is beginning to wear its end-of-the-session air, and the odds and ends of legislation with which lately it has been faced are in present circumstances doubly......

All Parties Are Anxious To Support British Civil...

Sir Kingsley Wood's Airways Bill, introduced on Mon- day, came in for a good deal of criticism. Sir Hugh Seely, for the Liberals, objected to its smell of nationalisation, while......

Our Merchant Shipping The News Contained In The Latest...

returns of Lloyd's Register of increased shipbuilding in British yards 1 , highly satisfactory. There are 6o more ships being built than when the last returns were compiled in......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

Chamber- lain's statement on Danzig gave satisfaction throughout the House. There were a few comments that it might have been stronger—foreign ears miss all but the loudest......

A '• Times " Correspondence In Some Countries The Times

is still regarded, sometimes with disastrous results, as the most representative organ of British public opinion ; in this country that reputation is being rapidly lost because......

Neglected Museums Lord De La Warr, President Of The Board

of Education, addressing the jubilee conference of the Museums' Associa- tion last week, said he was convinced by the facts presented in the Markham Report that an inquiry is......