5 APRIL 1940, page 2

News Of The Week

I T is obviously as distressing to the great majority of the French nation as it is to their friends in this country to learn that efforts are being made by some members of the......

Revenue And Expenditure

In making estimates in war-time a Chancellor of the Exchequer is necessarily making provision for the unknown on both sides of the balance-sheet. Sir John Simon may congratulate......

M. Molotoff's Ambiguities

The speech of M. Molotoff, the Russian Prime Minister and Commissar for Foreign Affairs, delivered before the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union last week, was sus- ceptible......

The German White Book

The German White Book, containing documents alleged to have been found among the Polish Foreign Office archives at Warsaw, is another example of the mischief which German......

Mr. Wang Installed

The Government of Central China, under Mr. Wang Ching-wei, whom Japan has established at Nanking as her protége, was duly inaugurated with a singular absence of ostentation last......