17 OCTOBER 1947, page 2

Hard Words And Hard Times

Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr. Herbert Morrison have been sparing no pains in the past week to bring home to the British people the hardships which lie ahead. They have had to face......

German Complaints

The statements of the British and American chairmen of the Anglo-American Control Office on irregularities in the collection and distribution of the German harvest have been so......

Back To Westminster

The third session of any Parliament (out of a potential five) should have a decisive bearing on the future, for already considera- tions affecting the next General Election must......

Talk On Palestine

After avoiding their duty to speak on the Palestine question at the United Nations for so long that at one point Sir Zafrullah Khan proposed that, since no one seemed to want to......

Winter Coal

Mr. Hugh Gaitskell no doubt owes some of the success of his first statements on the coal situation to the fact that he has taken office at the Ministry of Fuel and Power at the......