6 JANUARY 1939, page 5

News Of The Week

P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S address to Congress on Wednesday may justly be termed a historic utterance, for it stated the issues facing the United States in the inter- national field......

The Battle For Spain A Fortnight Ago General Franco Opened

his great offensive against Catalonia. The front stretches 70 miles from the foothills of the Pyrenees in the north, through the plain of Lerida in the centre, to the coastal......

M. Daladier On Tour On His Trindipbal Tew._ To Cortica

and Tunis this week, M. Daladier; has been_ received, ,is might be expected, with intense enthusiasm. He was able to set out with a more peaczful mind since the French Budget,......