17 FEBRUARY 1956, page 4

Jockeying For Position

TN February last year, seventeen months after the Royal 'Commission on Capital Punishment had submitted its report, the Home Secretary said that the Government had provisionally......

The Next Step

T HE results of the Maltese referendum have naturally been claimed as a victory both by the supporters and the oppon- ents of integration. Mr. Mintoff, indeed, only polled 45......

The Treasury's Split Mind

RITAIN'S overseas trade fared badly in January. The D import bill was the highest on record for any month, with the exception of March last year. Exports still showed little......

Portrait Of The Week

T HE cold has been international this week. There have been disastrous avalanches in Yugoslavia, the Spanish orange crop has been ruined, and US transport aircraft have been......