23 NOVEMBER 1929, page 4

Altogether The Effect Of The Bill Will Be To Increase

the amount which the Exchequer must find in the coming year by £12,500,000. If Mr. Snowden should be unable to find the money out of the existing sources of revenue there will......

General Smuts Said That He Had High Hopes Of Genuine

naval reductions, but that military and aerial disarma- ment would be very difficult subjects. Of these two, aerial disarmament was the more urgent, as aerial warfare was a much......

This Provision Is Perhaps An Approach To The Familiar Policy

of the Labour and Liberal parties for making the Treasury responsible for the support of all the able-bodied poor. For our part we dislike an expedient which must lessen rather......

What Is That Middle Way ? General Smuts Suggested That

without resorting to force there might be changes in the laws of neutrality. He meant by this, of course, that the United States would certainly not wish to help an aggressor by......

The Unemployment Insurance Bill The Most Important Bill...

week is the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill, the text of which was issued last Saturday. The debate on the second reading is , due for Thursday after we have gone to press. The......

The Conversion Loan In The House Of Commons On Monday

Mr. Snowden announced that the result of the 5 per cent. Conversion Loan was one of the most successful conversions of recent years. The total applications had amounted to......

For Our Part We Are Strongly Opposed To Tariffs For

quite another reason. They would be a constant source of international friction. The decisive argument used in the House of Lords, however, against Lord Beaverbrook was that the......