15 FEBRUARY 1946, page 4

According To Sir Ben Smith, In 1945 Roughly 536,000 Tons

of barley were used for, animal feeding-stuffs and 879,000 tons for brewing. This seems to show one way to a partial alleviation of the food crisis ; whether the way will be......

Incidentally, An Admirable Guide To Committee-stage...

Trade Unions and the Law, by Mr. Henry Strauss, who was a junior Minister in the Coalition Government, published by the firm of McCorquodale at 2s. The author writes as an......

For Every Bane There Is Said To Exist An Antidote,

and it is a curious coincidence that, just as Sir Stafford Cripps was explaining a few days ago that towels could not be supplied without coupons because if they were hotels......

U.n.o. And The Powers

T HE constructive work achieved by the United. Nations' 1 Organisation at the first session of its history has been unfortunately overshadowed_by the Security Council......

The Brooke Family, Who Are Rather In The Limelight As

a result of the offer of the present Rajah to transfer Sarawak to the British Crown, arc a long-lived race. Though Sarawak has existed as an independent (which is very far......

One Interesting Problem To Which The National Insurance...

given rise is the position of clergy and ministers of different denominations. Are they employed or self-employed persons? Plainly the former, but who is their employer,......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE House of Commons had a livelier time over the Trades Disputes Act Repeal Bill on Tuesday and Wednesday than over anything else this session. But with all the cut-and-thrust......

Nothing, The Romantic And Even Some Of The Unromantic, Would

say, is duller than statistics. Possibly enough ; but nothing is more necessary. Arguments without facts are mere puff-balls, and the best facts are often figures. Certainly,......