6 MARCH 1942, page 2

The Cabinet And India

While developments in the Indian situation wait on the announcement which the Prime Minister is to make in a few days, attention may with some profit be drawn to the......

Labour For The Mines The Recent Shortage Of Coal For

household use, especially in the London area, has brought home to the ordinary consumer the fact that the urgent problem of the mines has not been solved. As war-industry comes......

The Nation's Food-supply

The Ministry of Food does not claim to have avoided mistakes, but in the main it has stood the test of exacting criticism, and its record in the last two years has been one of......

The Riom Trials

The tragi-comic drama of the " war-guilt " trials staged at Riom is dragging its weary course along, but is by no means going according to plan. The Germans had urged the Vichy......

The Tax On Marriage

The joint assessment for income-tax of the earnings of husband and wife is a long-standing injustice to married tax-payers which no Chancellor of the Exchequer has yet been......