3 OCTOBER 1947, page 17

Causes Of Immigration The Causes Of Immigration Are, Of...

yet harder to diagnose for us islanders, and we get little or no help from the Continent. No one, so far as I am aware, has so much as suggested a reason why white butter- flies......

Russian Expansion

Sut,—I think Mr. McNeil's recent indictment of the Soviet methods which paralyse any international co-operation most admirable. The same praise is due to his description of the......

The Welcome Rain

The sight of " grass returning to the fields " gave Horace notice of the coming of spring. With us today it has announced autumn. The welcome watersprouts of blessed rain (for......

The Government And The Loan

SIR,—I recently attended a meeting at Cambridge at which Mr. James Griffiths, defending the Government on the charge of miscalculating the possible benefits of the American......

Country Life

IT is always a puzzle why or how this animal and that or even this plant and that finds its optimum—or pessimum—at a particular place or time. Why was it, for example, that......

Property In Germany And Austria

SIR, —An association has recently been formed to protect the interests of British owners of property in Germany and Austria. The aggregate value of such properties in buildings,......

In My Garden

The brightest show of berries in my paddock is given by two intermixed bushes of the wild Barberry and Guelder. Those on the Barberry are worth preserving and have a sharp......

Neglect Of Fishing In Rivers And Canals No European Or

American people are such ardent and successful sea fishers as the English. Our catches, which tend to rise, exceed £30,000,000. Only the Japanese, as the reprinted History of......

The Housewife's Weekly Struggle

SIR,—On giving my grocery order last week, I was told that the following articles were unobtainable: sultanas, sardines, scrubbing soap, soap flakes, Worcester sauce, custard......

[in Our Issue Of September 26th The Price Of "reason

and Un- reason in Society," published by Messrs. Longman, was given as 5s. This should have been 15s.]......

Lord Riddell And The Church Times "

SIR,—In your current issue Mr. Christopher H. Palmer expresses surprise at the statement in my book on newspaper controllers that Lord Riddell had an interest in the Church......