22 FEBRUARY 1963, page 4

Two-card Trick

T HE meeting of EFTA which has just finished in Geneva re-emphasised how small a margin of manoeuvre is left to the Government in its politico-economic relations with Europe......

Jigsaw Puzzlers

By JOHN COLE W HAT a capacity the British have for getting everything mixed up in one gigantic pudding! Just as the Common Market negotia- tions have broken down and just as the......

To Nigeria's Aid

N IGERIA is entering the second year of her Six-Year Development Plan in a position of considerable uncertainty. The Plan has made little tangible progress so far and though the......

North African Realities

T AST week's Rabat meeting between the La foreign ministers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia seems to have had as its main purpose the lowering of tension between the two latter......

Managing Mergers

T HE Bow Group has published a very sensible pamphlet on monopolies and mergers.* Their statistical table giving the concentration ratio for each industry (i.e., the proportion......