28 JULY 1950, page 3

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......

Ntiques For Export

The fine-art trade—the great auctioneers and the dealers in tiq ties and works of art—awaits with some interest the results of Stafford Cripps's recent promise to review the......

At Westminster

T HE adjournment prompts some thoughts on Ministers' fortunes during the session. Only one Cabinet Minister's reputation stands higher now than it did at the beginning of the......

If Ever I Grow To Be Old "

To become a literary legend it is not essential to be old, but ere is no denying that age helps. Mr. Shaw, who on Wednesday lebrated his ninety-fourth birthday, and Mr. Belloc,......