23 JANUARY 1948, page 2

Good News From Indonesia

For once symbolism was apt when, last Saturday, the Dutch and the Indonesian Republicans signed a truce at a session of the United Nations Committee of Good Offices held in an......

Defensive Trade

Although it is difficult to quarrel with any individual item in Mr. Harold Wilson's catalogue of British trade negotiations and objectives it is ecRally difficult to deny that......

Britain And Iraq

It is intelligible that the new Anglo-Iraqi treaty which was signed at Portsmouth last week should have been critically received by the Baghdad public, but very far from......

The " - Deprived " Children's Charter

The Children Bill, which is to be introduced and discussed in the House of Lords before it reaches the Commons, meets most of the urgent need revealed eighteen months ago by the......

I.r.o. And The Future

With approximately 1,500,000 refugees still in the world, up to a million of them in Europe, the Preparatory Commission of the Inter- national Refugee Organisation, whose fifth......