24 OCTOBER 1947, page 3

Information On The Coal Board

The new Minister of Fuel was given an early opportunity to dispel a good deal of the fog which surrounds his office when Sir John Mellor, on the first day of the new session,......

Service Cuts And Safety

Mr. Bevin's announcement• at Wandsworth on Wednesday that he would be no party to the degree of disarmament which proved so disastrous in 1939, carrying with it the implication......

At Westminster

T HE interval between the Parliamentary " hail—farewell—and hail again " was very short. On Monday the Lord Chancellor pronounced a nunc dimirtis in stately and sonorous tones,......

Subversive Celluloid ?

The Congress committee on un-American activities has opened its inquiry into Communist influence in Hollywood. " We want to know," its chairman has announced, " what strategic......