15 MAY 1947, page 3

The First Five Days

Words seem to have peculiar meanings when they are employed in connectioh with coal. Mr. Shinwell said that the output of deep- mined coal in the first fiye-day week-3,552,6o0......

Goodbye To The Housing Programme

When, at the end of January, the Minister of Health belatedly pro- duced the first post-war housing programme he gave great promin- ence to the fact that it could easily go......

At Westminster

y AM writing before Mr..Bevin's speech on Foreign Affairs, which I will no doubt be the piece de resistance of the Parliamentary week. Until the House switched to the......

Planning In Haste

It is some measure of the Government's methods of legislation that the Town and Country Planning Bill, which is on the whole one of the more carefully drafted of recent......