26 DECEMBER 1931, page 1

A Centre Party ?

• The rumour that the Prime Minister is setting to work to construct a new permanent National Party rests on no firmer foundation than the rival rumour that he is angling for......

The Future Of Reparations Out Of All This Emerges The

prospect that the Young Plan mechanism will be kept in being but that no repara- tions will be paid in the immediate future. To which may be added as an unofficial corollary,......

News Of The Week T He View Expressed In Last Week's

Spectator that Europe as a whole must tell the United States plainly that if reparations payments have to cease, then debt payments must cease too has since been echoed in a......

The Australian Election The Commonwealth Labour...

in last Saturday's general election. Mr. Scullin's following was reduced from thirty-five to thirteen, in a House of seventy-five ; his Treasurer, Mr. Theodore, and five other......

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