5 DECEMBER 1931, page 2

France And The German Situation

M. Laval's stiff refusal to admit priority for Germany's private debts over her reparation obligations has been read with considerable concern and some irritation in both......

The League And Manchuria

The League Council is still in session over Manchuria. If the general situation is not appreciably better it is not appreciably worse. And in one respect, at any rate—the......

The Round Table' And After - The Three Outstanding...

_ the closing days of the_ Round Table- Conference .were the Prime Minister, Mr. Sastri and, inevitably, Mr. Gandhi. Mr. MacDonald has done a great - piece of work in carrying......

Setting Back The Clock The Unreasonableness Trade Unions...

stimulates employers from time to time to show what they can do in the same direction, and they rarely let themselves be outdistanced. The 48-hour week being a canon of......

Flandin, M. Laval's Finance Minister, Displayed A Greater...

realities (perhaps as result of his flying visit to London) when lie observed to an interviewer that Germany could obviously pay nothing now on either account, but that there......

A Judge On Birth-control

Mr. Justice McCardie, in another of his many striking judgements, has just expressed himself strongly and sanely on birth-control. He had before him at Leeds Assizes a woman......