26 MARCH 1948, page 2

The Policeman's Lot

The shortage of recruits for the police force has nothing to do with the so-called "crime wave." Whatever the state of the criminal statistics the police would today be below......

Civil Defence

Predicting the character of a new war is as erratic a pastime as estimating when it will break out ; nevertheless, we must do both as best we can. It is possible that the full......

Cotton Becomes King

The announcement in the Economic Survey for 1948 that exports of cotton yarns and manufactures would have to be increased by 74 per cent, by the end of 1948, with an expansion......

Prague And Lake Success

All the news reaching this country from Czechoslovakia—and in existing circumstances it is imposible to know what news is failing to reach us—indicates that the situation is......

International Socialism

The two conferences of European Socialists Which have taken place in this country in the past week have neither expressed nor inspired strong feelings of brotherhood. The......