30 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 2

The Next Step In China

The Chinese have very sensibly sought to improve their equivocal position at the United Nations by taking the offensive. They accuse Russia of violating the Sino-Russian Treaty......

,friction In Germany

The general progress in Germany has received two set-backs this week, the fault in neither case being primarily the Germans' own. In Berlin the possibility of a new crisis has......

Failure In Kashmir

The United Nations Kashmir Commission has now abandoned its efforts to mediate between India and Pakistan and has gone into retirement at Geneva for the purpose of writing its......

How Restless Is France ?

The present signs arc that the sudden bout of political activity in France which has been in progress since the pound was devalued will not come to an immediate climax in a......

'the Balkan Balance

The progress of the dispute between the Cominform and Marshal Tito has fully demonstrated the truth that in Communist quarrels there are no half-measures. The Yugoslav protest,......