6 JANUARY 1950, page 5

News Of The Week

T . HE Conference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers which opens at Colombo on Monday may well turn out to be considerably more important than dis- cussions regarding it have so......

The National Finances

Sir Stafford Cripps, with a touch of that frankness out of which his former political reputation was made, pointed out on Wednesday that about half the factors which helped to......

Focus On Formosa

A note of reserve marked the references made by the Russian propaganda services to China during the official celebrations of Marshal Stalin's seventieth birthday ; though she......