31 OCTOBER 1947, page 16

Sm,—in Barbara Castle's Article On The Cotton Crisis She...

that more effective factory nurseries would coax women workers back to the industry. But she misses, or ignores , one very important factor, namely, an antipathy to factory life......

Farming In France

have been in the corn, seed, fertilisers, cattle-feed, &c., business since 1901. Twelve years ago I went to England in the beginning of July. Everywhere I went I found good......

America Looks At The Five-day Week

Sta,—Politics are not my metier, but I suppose that in the field of inter- national relations we can all play a small part. One of my regular correspondents is a distinguished......

Sir, —janus Would Have Done Better To Await My Reply To

Mr. Eden's false and misleading charge against us eight Labour M.P.s who visited Eastern Europe before assuming its truth. I propose to reply in the next foreign affairs debate.......

Sta,—mr. Peter Ratazzi, In His Letter Published In The...

of October 17th, under the title, Whale-hunting Folly, refers to "the inex- haustible food reserves of the high seas." Are these food reserves in- exhaustible? One of the......

Royal Statues

sm,--It is a pity Mr. Warren Postbridge's interesting article on the Royal Statues of London should have ascribed the best of them all—the White- hall Charles I—to the wrong......

Whaling And Fishing

Sta,—In his letter of October 17th, Mr. Russell Greenwood questions the truth of the statement made in my article in your October 3rd issue regarding the youth of the Japanese......