1 AUGUST 1952, page 2

Next Move For Steel

The White Paper on the re-transfer of the iron and steel industry to private ownership has the basic merit that it proposes the restoration of the Iron and Steel Board, which......

A Pressed Men's 'election

One volunteer is worth quite a number of pressed men. But the American Presidential Election knows no volunteers. Two pressed men face one another in the lists. General......

Talk Of Oil

The characteristic performance of Dr. Moussadek in offering arbitration over the oil-dispute in Persia and then immediately withdrawing the offer is a sufficient discouragement......

The Wage Issue

The question of wage increases is rapidly taking on an aspect which it has-not worn for some years. The assumption that there is a semi-automatic process whereby wage demands......

Prison Disclosures

Few bodies do more useful work than the House of Commons' Select Committee on Estimates. Striking evidence of that is provided by the committee's report on prison con- ditions,......