5 JANUARY 1945, page 2

Local Government "adjustments "

It can be well understood that the Government would shrink from the task of making drastic changes in the machinery of local govern- ment without exhaustive preliminary inquiry......

Industrial Planning

The four main-line railway companies have not been content with publicising—as they were fully justified in doing—the stupendous task they have carried through in bearing the......

Gallia Rediviva •

In his broadcast from Paris on Sunday night General de Gaulle called upon Frenchmen to face the New Year with the determination to put France back in her proper place among the......

The Voice Of Hitler

The significant thing about Hitler's broadcast on New Year's Eve was not in what he said, but that it should have been thought so necessary to put him up to say something, if......

Parties In China

Recent Chinese reverses in the war, increasing discord between the Chungking Government and the so-called Communist Govern- ment of Yenan, and an outburst of criticism against......