5 OCTOBER 1945, page 2

Local Government Changes

Many vital measures of social reconstruction in the near future will depend on the efficiency with which local authorities can play their part in administration, and these......

Education Prospects

In inheriting Mr. Butler's Education Act Miss Ellen Wilkinson inherits also the formidable difficulties of carrying it out, the greatest of which are shortage of teachers and......

Sir Stafford Cripps And Cotton

Sir Stafford Cripps has achieved a striking and rather unexpected success in Lancashire. His plan for appointing a " working-party " of employers, workers and independent......

The Condition Of Germany

In view of the records of suffering which reach us from all the liberated countries of Europe, the British public has not a great deal of sympathy to spare for the misfortunes......

World Trade Unionism

The meetings of the world trade union conference at Paris have not been without some stormy episodes, but the sense that delegates were participating in an historic event in the......

Liberation Problems In Java

In many parts of the Far East lately dominated by the Japanese " surrender " has been announced before liberation is by any means complete. Indo-China , and Java are cases in......