14 JULY 1950, page 2

Freer Payments

Among the many perversities which have complicated European trade, and made its very existence something of a miracle, the tangle of bilateral payments arrangements has been one......

Does France Need A Government ?

On Wednesday, July 12th, France at last obtained a Govern- ment, but she had not had one since June 24th, the day before Communist troops invaded South Korea. It is possible to......

The Limit Of Taxation

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has admitted in the House of Commons that this year's Finance Bill, which was passed at last on Monday, was unimaginative. Sheer weariness, after......

Refugees And Politics

Schleswig-Holstein, the most northerly of the West German Lander, is also one of the smallest. The elections that took place there last Sunday should therefore not give rise to......

Remember Smithfield

It is a rule of thumb in Fleet Street that a strike which is settled is not news, but it will be a very bad thing if the rule is allowed to apply to the strike of Smithfield......

S. W. Africa And The Union

South African spokesmen, presumably aware of the form it was likely to take, have been discounting in advance the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the status of......