28 JULY 1950, page 2

Let Them Eat Cake

In a month's time the extraction rate of flour for the national loaf will be reduced to 80 per cent. This means that bread will be whiter, keep better, cut better, and be......

More And More Electricity

One of the more curious beliefs held by Lenin was that industrial and social problems of the most intractable kind could be rapidly solved by the use of electricity. There was......

Back To The Stirrup-pump

It was a pity that the atomic bomb should have dominated tho debate on civil defence in the House of Commons on Monday. If war should break out the chances are that it would be......

Labour On The Wrong Leg

The best excuse that can be made for the resolutions for the Forty-ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, published this week, is that they were drawn up before the attack......

Technicians For The Forces

On the eve of the defence debate in the Commons some light was shed on the position regarding technicians in the Forces. The light, it is true, was not very strong, and the......