3 MAY 1935, page 3

Better Employment Figures A Highly Satisfactory Feature...

improvement in the unemployment figures for April 15th is that reduction is recorded in all important industries, and not least in the great basic industries. Coal-mining,......

Cheaper Telegrams—more Telephones There Have Been So Many...

Post Office services recently that the Postmaster-General is entitled to double congratulations in following the 1897 Jubilee precedent, and offering yet further reductions in......

Lay Evangelists

It was no doubt by an undesigned coincidence that the column in Thesday's Times which contained a report of the Presidential address to the Baptist Union, urging that the......

Members In All Parties Are Thoroughly Roused To The Dangers

of German rearmament in the air. Feeling that they have been grossly misled as to the size of the German Air Force they are not prepared to accept the statement that only......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

news in this Parliament has had a more disturbing effect on members than the announcement of the building by Germany of the twelve submarines. Sir John Simon is known to have......

Most Members Who Feel They Are Reasonably Safe In Their

constituencies have begun to press upon Ministers the Advisability of an early General Election. They think that the foreign news is an increasingly important factor in......

The Next Issue Of The Spectator Will Be A Special

jubilee Week number and will include many special articles bearing on aspects of the King and his reign, among them " King and Country," by Lord Eustace Percy ; " The King and......

The Rapid Worsening Of The International Situation Has...

valuable result : with one or two un- important exceptions there are no isolationists now in the House of Commons. It is realized that such are the militant temper and......