24 DECEMBER 1948, page 1

Turmoil In China.

In China a creeping paralysis continues to overtake the Kuomin- tang regime. Peking is closely invested and the railway to Tientsin cut. Rumours that General Fu Tso-yi is......

The French Budget.

It is not possible to say that France is facing the budget, for everyone except a few leaders of the Radical party is resolutely facing in the opposite direction. M. Queuille......

News Of The Week

T HE fact that the British Four-Year Plan is hedged about with conditions and reservations is perhaps its main virtue. Whether the cause of caution is the wish to avoid......