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We Welcome The Appearance Of The New Statesman, A New

weekly journal, in the editing of which Mr. Bernard Shaw and Mr. Sidney Webb are to be associated. The combination promises well for the serious presentation of intellectual......

Sir Rufus Isaacs, In Replying To A Resolution Of Confidence

in his action, spoke of "the calumnies" spread against him. He further stated that he would some day have a great deal to say on the matter. No doubt. We are bound to point out,......

Whatever - View Is The True View In Regard To National

service, the Government view is clearly indefensible. Even Whatever - view is the true view in regard to national service, the Government view is clearly indefensible. Even......

We Desire To Join Most Heartily In The Congratulations That

have been offered this week to Mr. Henry James on his seventieth birthday. Mr. Henry James has not only proved himself a great personal and intellectual force in fiction, but he......

Bank Rate,4iper Cent., Changed From 5 Percent. April...

(2i) were on Friday 75—Thursday week 74i.......

This Impudent Attempt To Draw A Red Herring Across The

path—it can only be described in such terms—for a day or so filled the apologists of the Ministers involved with delight. Unfortunately for them, however, the evidence given on......

Mr. Godfrey Isaacs Has Been Under Examination At The Marconi

Committee during the past week. The most im- portant event of his testimony was his veiled suggestion (noted by us last week) that the " rumours " in regard to Ministers were......

The Special Correspondent Of The Times In Thrace, Writing...

Adrianople on April 2nd, sends a long and illuminating account of the siege. The garrison numbered 58,000 men, the investing army 155,000 (120,000 Bulgarians and 35,000......

• A Correspondent Sends Us The Following Extract From A

speech made by Mr. E. T. John, M.P., on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's honour. Speaking at Port Talbot, at a meeting of the League of Young Liberals, he said :— " Before......

The Government, As The Writer Points Out, Thinks To Buy

off the opposition of the Irish Party by imposing these con- ditions :— "It may not know, though it ought to know, that co-operative tea and sugar is as necessary and salutary a......