12 JUNE 1936, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE return of Sir Samuel Hoare to the Cabinet sooner or later—preferably sooner rather than later—was a foregone conclusion, but it cannot reasonably bear the construction put......

The Forty-hour Week

IN his declaration to the French Chamber on Monday, M. Blum, as head of the new Govern- ment, promised to introduce immediately one of the most sweeping programmes of social......