5 MAY 1939, page 2

The Encirclement Myth The Comprehensive Repudiation Made...

Minister in the House of Commons on Wednesday of any idea of the " encirclement " of Germany may be of some service in so far as it is brought to the notice of the German people......

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The Archbishop's Opportunity An impressive letter by the Dean of St. Paul's in The Times last week, urging that " before the killing begins " the Christian churches throughout......

Serbs And Croats Last Week The Yugoslav Prime Minister And

the Croat leader, Dr. Matchek, reached a " final agreement " in their discussions at Zagreb on the Serb-Croat problem. The agree- ment was believed to provide for autonomy for......

Conscription And Ireland The Government May Be...

attitude it has adopted to the problem of applying conscription to Ulster. It might have been better to omit Ulster altogether from the scope of the Bill, for the number of men......

The Importance Of Rumania Rumania Continues To Be One Of

the keys of the European situation. If there is to be an effective defensive front in Eastern Europe Rumania and Poland must hold the fore- most places in it, with Russia in......

A New Plan For Palestine The Egyptian Government Has Played

a useful and honourable part in the conference last week-end at Cairo, attended by representatives of the Palestinian Arabs, the Arab States and the Indian Moslems, and presided......