26 MAY 1939, page 3

The Present House Has Been Sorely Troubled With...

if it had not been for the international situa- tion, there would doubtless have been considerably more interest and agitation as a prelude to Monday's debate. It became......

Japan And The Axis Italy Has Had No Choice But

to accept the military alliance pressed upon her by Berlin ; Japan, who can still decide her own policy, has this week finally iefused to enter into any new commitments with her......

The House, As A Whole, Was Not So Deeply Divided

into pro-Jew and pro-Arab as were those who spoke. The less prejudiced agreed that neither present nor past Govern- ments came well out of the sorry business. Mr. Malcolm......

* * * * Dr. Schacht In India Dr. Schacht,

the ex-President of the Rtichsbank and ex-Minister of Economics in Herr Hitler's Cabinet, has at length publicly disowned the never very plausible pretence that he is in India......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

reconstruction is always a topic for discussion in the House of Commons, but The Times newspaper, on Tuesday, re- vived it in an acute form. Controversy at once centred round......

The New Spain The Triumph Of The New Spain Was

celebrated last week in Madrid by a victory march of Spanish, German, Italian and Moorish troops ; in a speech following the march General Franco made no mention of the services......