28 OCTOBER 1949, page 2

Oil Politics In Persia

Relations between this country and Persia are poor and are unlikely to improve markedly before the signature of a new oil agreement. Until that is out of the way there will......

The Church In Czechoslovakia

The Government of Czechoslovakia may take what comfort it can from the fact that it has now appointed Mr. Alexei Cepicka to be the head of the new State Department controlling......

India In The Commonwealth

On Monday Mr. Nehru, speaking in Ottawa, declared in emphatic terms that India would remain a member of the Commonwealth when, as will soon happen, she becomes a Republic. Four......

Cold Coast Reforms

The report of the Gold Coast Committee on Constitutional Reforms is the most remarkable document on colonial affairs that has been produced since the war. Here, at its best, is......

Anglo-italian Relations

The malaise which has affected relations between Britain and Italy in the past few months was beginning to enter a dangerous phase before Count Sforza made his determined......

Slot-machine Contraceptives

While it is satisfactory that the Home Secretary should have acted so promptly in the matter of the sale of contraceptives from slot- machines, it may be questioned whether to......