17 FEBRUARY 1950, page 7

The Dilemma Of The French Left

By Professor D. W. BROGAN tt A France s'ennuie." •That lapidary phrase condemned, in advance, the dying bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe. And if one neglected all other......

• Flood

THE stream, as modest as a vesper bell, Sings in its channel: only on each side The swathes of flattened grass remain to tell - _Of stone displaced, and concrete gaping wide:......

West German Economy

By PETER GALLINER One result of the difficulties faced by the average household is that the German worker, who has always objected to women working in industry, today urges his......