16 MAY 1952, page 2

Purchase-tax Finality

Mr. Butler was fully entitled to point out in the debate on purchase-tax in the House of Commons on Monday that the Douglas scheme for a revised purchase-tax "came from the......

A Prophet Abroad

Mr. Walter Lippmann is as far removed as possible from the under-the-bed, inside-information school of foreign commen- tators. The raw material of his articles is the common......

A Sinister Canard

It is to be hoped that the truth and all the truth about the origin of the canard published by the Paris journal Le Monde, which is virtually a successor of Le Temps, regarding......

Exchange On Tariffs

A month ago the British Government addressed a courteous but anxious memorandum on the subject of tariffs to the American State Department. An answer which will relieve some,......

Accord On Trieste

The Italian Prime Minister has said that the new agreement on Trieste will be administered in a spirit of " friendly understanding." It is certainly as a result of this spirit......