18 JULY 1931, page 2

On Tuesday The Lords Passed The Second Reading Of The

Finance Bill, which had been certified as a Money Bill. The Commons returned to the Rural Housing- Bill. No amendments of importance were made. Here again the chief criticisms-......

Parliament On Thursday, July 9th, The Upper House Boldly...

the Franchise Bill in Committee. We say boldly, because the representation of the people is not a favourable matter for them on which to pick a quarrel with the Commons,......

Vatican And Quirinal The Lamentable Strife Between Church...

in Italy does not abate. Since the Holy Father issued his last encyclical with its firm criticism, even denunciation, of Fascist action and of the doctrine of a pagan worship of......

Friday, July 10th, Was Given In The Commons To The

second reading of the Rural Housing Bill, designed to encourage local authorities to build cottages and to empower the Ministry of Health to build where the local authorities......

Coal And Chaos The Passing Of The Coal Bill, Of

which we wrote last week, has threatened chaos to the Scottish coalfields. Negotiations are going on, but nobody seems yet to have determined a suitable basis for them. A number......

Spain The Constituent Cortes Were Opened In Madrid On July

14th. The Provisional Government—though there were moments when the adjective in their title seemed to eclipse the noun—are to be congratulated on surviving until the new ship......

The Macmillan Report Lord Macmillan's Committee On...

published its Report on Monday. All of the fourteen members, except Lord Bradbury, take a favourable view of Great Britain's prospects. They hold that monetary policy should......