17 JANUARY 1941, page 2

A Reservoir Of Airmen

Preparations for a new long-term training scheme to increase the number of pilots, navigators and technicians available for service with the R.A.F. were announced last week by......

The Standard Of Living .

The first results of the Ministry of Labour's inquiry into the cost of living in 1937-38 have new been published. They reveal the standard of living as expressed in the......

Wages In War-time

It is satisfactory to find a great employer like Sir Malcolm Stewart supporting wholeheartedly the proposals for wage- regulation put forward recently by Mr. Seebohm Rowntree in......

Thailand And Indo-china

The contagion of war spreads, and the country of Thailand (formerly Siam) is now in open hostilities with French Indo- China, and her armies are invading the territory east of......

Turkey, Britain And Bulgaria

Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, General Sir James Marshall- Cornwall and Air Vice-Marshal Elmhirst were received last Tuesday by the Turkish Foreign Minister and the Chief of the......

Abyssinia In Revolt

The Italians in Abyssinia have not yet felt the weight of a serious British attack such as that which has broken the Italian army in Libya, but their embarrassments are......