24 DECEMBER 1937, page 3

Both The Prime Minister And Mr. Eden Adopted A Hush-

hush strategy. No one blames them for behaving with due circumspection, or wishes them to emulate the dictators and bawl their objectives across the world. But Mr. Chamberlain......

Incidentally, This Was The First Speech Which Sir Arthur Has

delivered on the international situation. He seemed less confident than usual, but nevertheless made the best- informed contribution of the afternoon. He has visited China twice......

The Report Of The Departmental Committee On Pensions For...

is a disappointment. No doubt the number of ex-members who fall upon evil days is small. But every- one knows that such cases do occur. The committee recom- mend a compulsory......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

debate on the foreign situation was an unsatisfactory affair. There was no special occasion for it, and the participants roamed over the whole face of the earth. As so often......

Rent Restriction Though The Labour Members Of The...

Rent Restriction reject its Majority Report altogether, criticism is most likely to concentrate on its proposals for abolishing control of the lower-rented houses. The Report......

Movements Of Industry The Ministry Of Labour's Annual...

which has been published now for 13 years, provides a valuable survey of the development of British industry as a whole and of the relative shifts and changes within the......

* * * * Homes For Delinquents An Article In

this issue of The Spectator emphasises that in many cases juvenile delinquency is the result of unsatis- factory conditions in the home and in the family. If such is the cause,......

Wireless For Prisons

IN response to our appeal of last week for subscriptions from readers of The Spectator to enable wireless sets to be pre- sented to the, convict and other prisons of Great......