23 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 2

A Year Of The Health Service

Though the National Health Service completed Its first year nearly three months ago no serious examination, official or unofficial, had been made till the Practitioner undertook......

Citizens Of Malaya

It may well be that the Communists in Malaya will succeed where better-intentioned men than they have failed, and that history will hold them responsible for the creation of a......

Confession To Order

The Hungarian " treason " trials, with the formal accusations followed immediately by a spate of comprehensive confessions, repro- duce in every detail the patterns made......

The Trade Union Bourbons

The failure of the proposed " go-slow " strike on the London railways is at least an indication that there is some limit to the determination of trade unionists to ignore......

Neit Week's Spectator Will Be A Special Enlarged Literary...

containing, among other contributions, reviews by Bonamy Debree, H. W. Garrod, C. E. Vulliamy, C. M. Woodhouse, Richard Church, Monk Gibbon and Sir Philip Magnus.......

The Two Chinas

At Peking the Chinese Communists are assembling a People's Political Consultative Conference which will shortly bring into being a central Government for the vast and steadily......