29 APRIL 1938, page 3

Since The Budget Statement The House As A Whole Has

been in a chastened frame of mind. For two or three years a great many members have seemed to regard almost light- heartedly the steadily mounting figures of expenditure. Since......

One Result Of This Altered Outlook May Reasonably Be Looked

for. While no one suggests that rearmament should be slowed down there is likely to be greater insistence on safe- guards against waste. The Royal Commission on the Private......

The Speech Itself Was A Somewhat Uneven Performance. As...

Moore-Brabazon pointed out, the preliminary review of the past year's receipts has seldom been made more interesting. Later on Sir John exhibited all the skill of a great......

Though The Probation System Has Now Been Practised In The

Courts of this country for some thirty years, and has had ample time to prove its value, there is nothing superfluous in a Home Office booklet issued on Monday to explain the......

The Aeroplane Output For All The Prime Minister's...

Lord Swinton public anxiety regarding the output of aeroplanes increases rather than diminishes, and there is ground for suggesting that it would increase more rapidly still if......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

the Budget came as a shock to most of the House of Commons. The majority of members, at any rate on the Government side, had persuaded themselves that no substantial increase of......

Arms And The Unions Severe Criticism Has Recently Been Made

of the delays in the execution of the Government's arms programme ; it now appears that there will be further delays in the "speed up" of production for which the Government has......

Next Week's ' Spectator ' Next Week's Spectator Will Be

a special Scottish number and will include, in addition to regular features, articles on "The Glasgow Exhibition," by Mrs. Walter Elliot ; "Indus- try or Empty Glens ? " by Sir......