5 AUGUST 1949, page 2

Progress At Lausanne

The chances that the United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine may be able to achieve something before the Assembly meets in the autumn have increased in the past......

Middle Eastern Oil

None of Iraq's oil has been refined at Haifa since the Jews seized that port fifteen months ago. This has meant a very serious loss of revenue to Iraq and an almost equally......

Second Thoughts On The Press

The debate in the House of Commons on the Press Commission report was inevitably something of an anticlimax. In October, 1946, when the trumpets first sounded to the attack on......

Better News From Greece

There have been so many checks and disappointments in the course of the Greek civil war that the present tendency towards optimism must be qualified by the warning that......

The Skeleton Air Bridge

Although the reduction in the air-lift to Berlin from Western Germany began on Monday, there is no reason to believe that the usefulness of this great and entirely successful......