23 JANUARY 1932, page 2

Timber From Russia The Discussion On The Importation Of...

timber at prices said to be so low as to drive Canadian and other Empire timber out of the market has several aspects, which are better kept separate, for some of the arguments......

Labour's Fissures

There was little of the " will ye no' come back again" air about the references to the Prime Minister and Lord Snowden at the various Labour meetings of last week-end, and it is......

Co-operators And Income Tax

Half the difference of opinion about whether Co-operative Societies should pay income tax is . due to the confusion caused by the co-operatorS' habit Of describing, as dividend,......

M. Briand Departs

Though the manner of his going did not in every way become him, the disappearance of M. Briand from the French Cabinet is an incident of historical importance. That it marks the......

More People At Work

It is good to know, from a Ministry of Labour report, that in the last quarter of 1931 some 225,000 unemployed persons found work. About 90,000 others ceased under the new rules......

A Great Churchman

Dr. Charles Gore, who died on Sunday at the age of seventy-eight, will be widely mourned. From his youth up he was prominent and influential in the High Church party. But his......