18 MARCH 1949, page 2

Collapse In Burma

With the fall of Mandalay and Maymyo, leaving its authority barely recognised outside Rangoon, it might be supposed that the days of the Burmese Government were numbered. But......

—and Britain's Contribution

There is, of course, one essential condition for the effectiveness of the Atlantic Pact. That is that every State concerned is prepared to make an adequate contribution to the......

Old Oil Makes News

For some years the Americans have grown uneasily resigned to their country's switch from being an exporter to an importer of oil. If it had been true, as some agency reports......

Groundnut Misgivings

There was one weakness in Mr. Strachey's contention, in the House of Commons debate on groundnuts on Monday, that if the scheme was likely to cost twice as much as originally......

Israel Pushes On

The world is so reluctant to face the prospect of a new flare-up in Palestine that the Israeli Foreign Minister has an eager audience for the soft words which he has been......