15 AUGUST 1931, page 2

The Third Degree In America The Wickersham Commission's...

report is a document on which, if it had been published two hundred or three hundred years ago, civilization could not look back without a feeling of shame and revulsion. To-day......

Round Table Uncertainties As The Date Of The Round Table

Conference in London approaches the outlook is not improving. Both the All-India Congress Committee and the executive of the All-Indian Moslem Conference have been in session,......

Reconstruction In Spain While The Catalan Question Still...

at Madrid the Provisional Government is strengthening itself in another direction by its agrarian reform programme. Details of the new Land Bill are still awaited, but the......

Facing Facts In Australia Australia Is Providing For Such...

as need it an instructive object-lesson in methods of economy. The Conversion Loan has made an excellent start, some £150,000,000 of stock being converted the first day into the......

A Naval Holiday ?

The report that President Hoover has the idea of pro- posing a two years' naval holiday as America's contribution to the Disarmament Conference appears to rest on no very solid......

The Cotton Glut Cotton Has Now Been Dramatically Added To

the list of commodities—among them wheat, coffee, tin, rubber, oil—of which the supply hopelessly exceeds the effective demand. That there should be a cotton surplus is no......