30 NOVEMBER 1934, page 6

No One Looks To The Prime Minister For Lucidity, But

obscurity at its murkiest marked Mr. MacDonald's replies to questions on Monday about the rule—or honour. able custom—precluding Cabinet Ministers (not appar- ently junior......

As Everyone Understands Now, No Political Significance...

the fact that Sir John Simon, Lord Lothian and Lord Winterton did not sign the report of the Joint Committee on India. All three of them support the findings of the main body of......

Into The Acrimonious Discussions About The Peace Ballot I...

no desire to enter. If the Ballot is being made a party question the responsibility must rest with the party which has—though by no means unanimously —condemned and repudiated......

Experiment In The Depressed Areas

R EADERS of recent debates in the House of Commons may have been cheered or saddened—according to their reactions to such matters—by the somewhat severe criticism to which the......

The Passchendaele Debate Is, I Hope, Dying Down. Pending...

new efflux of controversial allegations, we can well afford to wait for the contributions the very responsible biographers of Lord Haig and Lord Plumer will be able to make. But......

Herr Ribbentrop, Herr Hitler's Semi-official Dis-...

just left London, may not have conducted any very formal conversations while he was here. But he did, I understand, make it quite plain that Germany was still ready to stand by......

A Spectator's Notebook

r deadlock between this country and the Irish Free ntate cannot go on for ever, but since both sides have publicly taken a position from which neither is ready to recede all the......