24 OCTOBER 1952, page 2

Italian Electoral Reform

The Christian Democrats of Italy and their allies are seeking (in their own interests, it is true, but also for the _sake of ensuring stability of government) to avert the......

The United Nations Waits

The United Nations Assembly, while waiting for Mr. Eden and M. Schuman, who are waiting for the United States elections, has made a lethargic beginning. Nothing impressive has......

French Doubts

The best feature of the proposal for a European Defence Community has always seemed to be that Such an organi- sation could effect a fusion of two fundamental aims in the......

Ups And Downs In Indo-china

A rigid censorship makes it difficult to assess the gravity of the reverses suffered by French Union forces in the Thai territory to the northwest of Hanoi. The post of......

Mr. Shinwell's Private War

There is one grain of sense in the campaign which Mr. Emanuel Shinwell is-conducting for the reduction of the period ' of conscription. Mr. Shinwell is right in saying that,......