17 DECEMBER 1948, page 2

The Importance Of Bombers

When the Service Estimates were published, earlier in the year, gloom was thick. Their story of reduced expenditure was accom- panied by tales of waste and frustration in the......

New Towns And Licences

Few measures have been assailed by a heavier battery of bad arguments than the Licensing Bill which got its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday. It was attacked......

Tension In Indonesia

More trouble seems to be brewing in Indonesia. Over the week-end the Dutch Government at The Hague issued a communiqué defining, primarily for the benefit of the Committee of......

The Food Business

The fact that buying and selling of food is in normal times treated as a branch of business was often forgotten during Tuesday's debate, and not least when the Minister of Food......

Abdullah And Arab League

King Abdullah has become the Tito of the Arab League. He is accused of most of the crimes—disloyalty, self-aggrandisement, con- nivance with the West—which led to the expulsion......