31 OCTOBER 1931, page 3

The Washington Week-end The Most Significant Feature Of...

brief visit to Washington is the almost universal satisfaction of the French Press that nothing came of it. France has a perpetual fear of being jockeyed into something she does......

The Revision Of Treaties While Signor Giandi Was...

the German Chancellor at Berlin last Sunday, Signor Mussolini at Naples was drawing pointed distinctions between the nations forcibly disarmed by the peace treaties and the......

Balkan Rapprochements The Second Annual Balkan...

ended at Stamboul, was bound to be a sterner test of the movement towards rapprochement than the first., held a year ago at Athens. Last year all was novelty and enthusiasm.......

Equal Justice A Minor Case In Which The Permanent Court

of Inter- national Justice has just given judgement deserves notice for one particular reason. The question at issue bore on the eternal disprite between Poland and Lithuania......

A Gang-chiefs Taxes Everything Connected With The...

Chicago is justly, or (as Chicago vehemently insists) unjustly, notorious has a touch of the incredible about it. This week's headlines record the downfall of the prince of all......

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

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 981x.d. ; on Wednesday week, 99; a year ago, 162Ix.d. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on......

Was The French Prime Minister's Journey, Then, Waste Of Time

? That by no means follows. The personal contacts between statesmen that have become so fashion- able in the last twelve months always do some good. Moreover, where no definite......