25 OCTOBER 1946, page 3

At Westminster

To describe the first day of the Foreign Affairs debate as a great Parliamentary occasion would be to use the language of hyperbole. The Foreign Secretary made a mammoth oration......

Housing Again

The debate on housing on Monday was as lively as any debate opened by Mr. Aneurin Bevan is bound to be, but it produced no spzcial illumination. The Opposition attributed slow......

A Larger " Spectator "

The paper situation having now improved (though supplies are still only 4o per cent. of the pre-war total), The Spectator will from next week consist of 32 pages instead of the......

The Holiday Problem

The end has just been reached of the first full post-war holiday period which, ideally, covers the six months from mid-April to mid-October. In fact, as the past season has......

Exports Down

The Board of Trade, actuated no doubt by a laudable sense of continuity, can be relied upon to show that the overseas trade figures are neither as good nor as bad as they seem.......