7 FEBRUARY 1920, page 2

Mr. Mckenna, The New Chairman Of The London Joint City

and Midland Bank, made an excellent speech on the causes of high prices at the general meeting on Thursday week. He de- monstrated that the root cause of high prices was......

The Leading Bankers, Commercial Men, And Politicians Who...

for an International Economic Conference met the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday. They impressed upon him, as Mr. McKenna had done upon his audience, the stern truth that......

Precisely The Same Denunciations Of The Castle Were Going On

in Mr. Birrell's time, although Mr. Birrell tolerated every kind of sedition on the principle that you must not sit on the safety-valve. We understand all about the......

As Mr. Glass's Letter Seems To Have Produced The Impression

that Great Britain wanted to borrow afresh from America, our Treasury promptly informed him that we had no intention of doing so. Since June last, British Government purchases......

Let Us Examine The List. There Is Mr. Long's Private

score- ;my, Sir John Taylor, who is condemned for being " at Lord French's elbow." Sir John Taylor, the private secretary of an Irish Vioeroy, is, we believe, a Roman Catholic.......

Although We Hope For The Return Of Mr. Asquith, For

the Special and immediate reason that the House of Commons is greatly in need of this distinguished Parliamentarian with his cool analytical method, with his great knowledge of......

The American Signatories Of The Memorial For An...

received last week a frank and chilling reply from Mr. Glass, the retiring Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Glass said that the United States Government could not make any more......

The Truth Is That We Are Not Asking The American

Government for any favours. British opinion supports the proposal for an International. Economic Conference because it itt to our interest that the crisis should be properly......

Mr. Asquith's Political Programme Has Distinctly Emerged...

at Paisley. As regards the proposed nationalization of the coal-mines, he says that if by national- ization is meant the possession by the State of mineral rights, he is in......

The Visit Of The New Rumanian Premier, Dr. Vaida-voeved, To

London has enabled leading members of the various Churches in Great Britain to draw his personal attention to the imnortance of relit ions liberty. The Rumanian occupation of......

We Have Just Been Reading An Article In The Freeman's

Journal which is the kind of thing that is read quite literally by English Liberals, and which might have been the text of some of Mr. asquith's vague and perilous reproaches......