27 JANUARY 1933, page 3

By-elections

The by-election at Liverpool tells no very definite story. As itt the General Election there was a straight fight between a Labour candidate and a Conservative enjoying the......

The Shorter Hours Problem The 40-hotir Week Conference At...

has ended with the adoption of a sensible resolution, from which the British Government delegate, alone among repre- sentatives of Governments, saw fit to dissent. Most of the......

The Future Of The Reichstag

The German Reichstag is due to meet on Tuesday, but there is still the possibility of a further postponement. What will happen when it does ultimately assemble no man can......

A Stable Population

The article on " The Population Trap " in Monday's Times should be read and pondered by everyone concerned with administration. For it points out that the popu- lation of Great......

Lord Beaverbrook And Wage Cuts The Broadside From Lord...

in the Daily Express, demanding the maintenance, and in due course the improvement, of the present standard of living and the present Wage level, is an interesting portent. A......

Amending The American Constitution An Important Change In...

political system is made by the twentieth amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified this week by the necessary three- fourths of the State legislatures. The interval......

Examinations Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes ? Who Shall...

examiners ? The Carnegie Corporation and a branch of Columbia University arc gallantly prepared to answer the question. They have set up committees in England, Scotland, France,......