30 MAY 1925, page 2

Questions Have Been Asked In The House Of Commons About

*the practice which has grown up among some Ministers of regularly writing for newspapers. The frequent articles by Lord Birkenhead were the immediate pretext of the questions.......

We Must Again Offer Our Deep Sympathy To The Japanese

nation which was visited by another violent earthquake on Saturday last. Two towns on the northern coast of the southern mainland, Toyooka and Kinosaki, have been almost wiped......

The Duke Of Atholl And Lord Cecil Supported The Bill,

but Lord Salisbury and Lord Birkenhead opposed it. Lord Birkenhead said that women who were peeresses in their own right had been granted special privileges only in order to......

There Are Several Reasons Why He Ought Not To Do

so but we need mention only two. One is that any public statement by a Cabinet Minister is properly taken as involving the collective responsibility of the Cabinet— the......

On Monday The House Of Commons Took The Second Reading

of the Finance Bill. The general character of the debate showed that though opposition to the Budget was of many kinds there was no great heart in it. Although doubts were felt......

The Gist Of Mr. Lloyd George's Speech Was That The

industrial situation governed everything and that the Budget had been prepared without any proper regard for industry. He suggested that Income Tax relief ought to have been......

The Russian Trade Unions Have Sent Their Answer To The

International Federation known as the Amsterdam International. It will be remembered that in February Amsterdam asked Moscow whether the Soviet Unions , would apply for a ffi......

In The House Of Lords On Thursday, May 21st, Lord

Astor made another attempt to pass his Bill for enabling peeresses in their own right to sit in the House. This time the Bill was lost by only two votes-80 to 78. The Bill while......