20 MAY 1949, page 2

The Rights Of Northern Ireland

The debates of the past week on Ireland ended better than they began, with the unopposed passage of the Ireland Bill, conferring notable privileges on Eire citizens, through its......

Miniature General Election?

The determination to treat the recent local elections simply and solely as an indicator of possibilities at next year's General Election will not be denied. Perhaps in a......

Far Eastern Forecasts

It is just about a year since guerrilla warfare started on a serious scale in Malaya, and it is now clear that, while the original Com- munist rising may have gone off at......

The Landowners' Lot

Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, the Chairman of the Central Land Board, renewed this week an appeal which he has made publicly more than once before to property-owners to make their......

The Pusillanimous Nations

Failure to reach agreement on the former Italian colonies is a triumph for no one ; it is, rather, a humiliation for each individual member State of the United Nations and a......