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Sickness Benefits Sta,—two Of The Conditions Under Which...

is payable are as follows:—" If the local National Insurance Office is not informed of the incapacity within the first three days the insured person may suffer a loss of......

The Farmers' Finance

SIR, —Mr. Walston, in answering my letter, has put words into my mouth which he admits I never wrote, and which I certainly did not mean. May I make it completely clear that I......

Flow Many Judes?

Sta,—Dr. Thomson's letter is a valuable warning, and for me a well- deserved correction. I ought to have made it plain that I was only speaking, and as he points out could only......

Robert Lynd

SIR, —Jantis's comments on Robert Lynd will very much please hosts of people, especially those in Belfast, his native place, where he was held in the highest esteem. Throngs of......

The Romantic On The Railway Sir,—canon Lloyd's Reference...

of the cleanest footplates I have ever seen" would suggest that a clean footplate is today the exception. As a pupil on the G.W.R. I had some experience of footplates on all......

Alternative To Franco Sir, —a5 I Have Just Returned From A

visit to Spain, I was very interested to read Father Cary-Elwes' impressions of the Franco regime. Conditions there, such as the extreme drought and the widespread poverty, were......

Ermany's Refugees Sta,—holiday-makers Returning From The...

to dwell on the spectacle of full shop windows and the presence of luxuries inaccessible to us at home. They do not mention, however, the problem of Germany's twelve million......