2 JANUARY 1932, page 7

Steel Under Protection

Figures just published in Paris have an instructive bearing on the demand of the iron and steel industries for protection in this country. In protected France production in......

The Vatican Library Accident It Was Natural Enough That The

damage done to the Vatican library two days before Christmas should have been somewhat exaggerated in the first reports. It is unfortunately true that five persons were killed......

Liberty And Politics

The question of whether English Professors should so far intervene in the controversies of another country as to protest against the action of the Italian Government in......

The Prime Minister And The Cunarder A Letter From The

Prime Minister to Mr. Will Thorne, M.P., confirms the suggestion made in these columns last week that the real trouble about the new Cunarder is not to find the money to......

Mr. A. P. Graves

We record with sincere regret the death, at Harlech on Sunday, of Mr. Alfred Perceval Graves, the distin- guished Anglo-Irish poet and essayist. The son of a former Bishop of......

The " Spectator " And Disarmament

With the Disarmament Conference no more than a month distant the general attitude to it of the principal countries concerned is a matter of increasing importance. The Spectator......

The Miner's Hours

A conference is to be held at Geneva on Thursday at the request of the British Government to try to secure the simultaneous application by the coal-producing countries of Europe......

Bank Rate 6 Per Cent., Changed From 41 Per Cent.

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 93/ ; on Wednesday week, 951 ; a year ago, 103*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 821 ; on Wednesday......