29 JANUARY 1943, page 1

T Has Been Constantly And Rightly Reiterated That The Object

of the NEWS OF THE WEEK Eighth Army in Egypt and Libya was not to take territory but to destroy the armed forces of the enemy. Though that is a correct a ccount of the military......

Foreign Office Reform

The White Paper on the Reform of the Foreign Service, issued on Thursday, is as admirable in form as in substance, which is more than can be said of all official documents.......

Entry And Exit

In some ways the most important sections of the reform proposals are those dealing with recruitment for the service and with stimu- lating exit from it in suitable cases.......