20 MARCH 1936, page 3

The Only Subject That Has Produced Any Real Out Burst

of indignation on the Opposition benches this week is, oddly enough, margarine. The Labour hack-benches take violent exception to the fact that margarine is supplied to the Air......

• Insuring Against Death Duties Sir Edward Mountain Has Done

well to raise once more the question of insuring against death duties. At present if the owner of an estate worth £100,000 took out a policy for £100,000 to cover it, the only......

• An Answer In The House Of Commons Which Has

hardly been given sufficient attention was that in which Lord Cranborne stated the number of•international agreements which the Government is pledged to uphold if necessary . by......

Sir Thomas Inskip's Appointment As The Co-ordinating...

watt certainly a surprise, but it has been more generally welcomed than would appear from the popular Press. Many Government supporters would have preferred Mr. Churchill,......

Mortality, North And South The Improvement Which Has...

in conditions of life in- the last twenty years is shown exceptionally clearly-by the mortality tables, based on the mortality figures for 1930, 1931 and 1932, now published by......

The Week In Parliament Our Political Correspondent Writes...

in the House of Commons has behaved throughout the international crisis with the greatest- restraint. Its leaders have not pressed for a debate while the delicate negotiations......

Equal Work, Equal Pay The Resolution Demanding Equal Wage...

for men • and women, passed at a crowded meeting in the Caxton Hall on Tuesday,• expresses a just demand which, so far as it is pressed, cannot reasonably be resisted. Yet it is......