4 AUGUST 1950, page 1

The President's Powers

The American economy is in an exuberantly healthy state foe coping with the tremendous demands which are about to be Made upon it by the rearmament programme. But an expenditure......

The Cost Of Defence

Mr. Bevin went to The Hague this week to attend a meeting of the Consultative Council of the Brussels Treaty on defence questions. The deputies of the Foreign Ministers of the......

Compromise By Force

Prince Myshkin, the hero of Dostoyevsky's novel, The Idiot, was seized by an alarming presentiment that at the party he was about to attend he would knock over a valuable china......