28 MAY 1942, page 10

My Feelings In The Matter Are Quite Definite. I Find

myself heart and soul on the side of the small shopkeeper. The President of the Board of Trade would doubtless assert that he abundantly shares these human sympathies ; in fact,......

Marginal Comment

NICOLSON By HAROLD S WIFT in his last years, happening to turn the pages of a book which he had written in his prime, groaned aloud and exclaimed, " Great God! What genius 1 had......

I Soon Found That The Business Was Not In The

least as simple as all that. My first discovery was that my loyalties were multi- form, and not uniform. i had a loyalty to my constituents, another . form of loyalty to my......

Thus, As The Interim Report Of The Committee Points Out,

situation of serious gravity is rapidly developing, and unless so thing be done the 'small trader will in the next few years alm certainly disappear. A few businesses, which......

Before The House Rose Last Week For The Short Whitsun

recess there was an excellent debate upon this very subject. I regret that this debate did not obtain the publicity that it deServed, since the debates on the two previous days......

There Are Those Who Contend That These Are But Idle

tears, that it is as sentimental to bemoan the fate of the little shop as was in 185o to grow soppy about the dear old coaching days. I no analogy between the two occurrences. I......