26 MAY 1939, page 2

News Of The Week

T HE Royal tour in Canada is exceeding all expectations in the depth of feeling it has stirred. King George is conspicuously successful in dispensing with formality without......

The Conscription Discussions The Military Training Bill...

third reading in the House of Commons and its second in the House of Lords. The collaboration between the Government and the Opposition in improving and amending its terms has......

Childless Households In An Admirable Address On Childless...

Welwyn on Tuesday, Lord Dawson of Penn indicated the practical measures which will have to be taken if the decline in fertility is to be arrested. In theory few would disagree......

The Square Deal By Recommending The Abolition Of Present...

on the railways' power of fixing goods rates, the report of the Transport Advisory Committee, published last week, con- cedes the chief of the railways' demands for a " Square......

Tension In Danzig The Incident Which Occurred Last Sunday At

Kalthoff, on the frontier between Danzig and East Prussia, has very naturally caused considerable alarm. The Polish version and the Danzig version of events inevitably differ ;......