19 AUGUST 1949, page 2

Balkan Balance Shifting

If strong words meant anything in present-day diplomacy it could only be inferred from the pronouncements of the past week that fighting between Yugoslavia and Russia was about......

Maltese Cross

If it were possible to assess in cash the value to the Allied cause of Malta's resistance during the last war, or the potential usefulness of the island in the event of another......

Strikes And Rumours Of Strikes

It is understandable that the closest attention should be given by the Government to vast claims such as that which the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions now......

The Road-massacre

Figures showing the substantial rise in road accidents, fatal and otherwise, that followed the doubling of the basic petrol ration in June tell a deplorable story. For the plain......

The Tables Turned In Damascus

h is not much use trying to find an explanation for last Sunday's coup d'etat in Damascus in the proclamations which the new Government has since put out ; these consist only of......