4 JANUARY 1930, page 5

R-generg Smuts In The United - States .

: Not much attention has been given to the -visit 'cif :General Smuts to the United States, but: it would not the surprising if this visit turned out to be extraordinarily......

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Why Does Not The Prime Minister Use His Great Power

Of nabial persuasion more vigorously ? Does he not admit that we are in the presence of an industrial and financial crisis which requires a vast common effort comparable to that......

News Of The Week

The Government and the New Year A T the opening of the New Year the burdens and anxieties of the Government are ominously heavy. Unemployment is a persistent nightmare ; and......

- Americans, Unhappily, Are Much Too -apt To Think Of

the League as representing an obsolete European - ten- dency to force the will of a majority - upon those who dissent. If they had studied the laborious architectural work......

The Prime Minister Seems To Be So Immersed In The

preliminaries of the Naval Conference that he has less . „time and..-inclination_than. . could , wish . for demanding in seffokt-- eoeXtensive -With - the - nation foritehievink......