5 DECEMBER 1947, page 2

Fiat Justitia

The Second Reading of the Criminal Justice Bill found the House as a whole in agreement on all essentials—a welcome change from the acrimonious controversies which some recent......

No Progress At Lancaster House

The fact that Mr. Molotov should have seen fit to suggest that the Foreign Ministers should submit, within two months, proposals for a German peace treaty based on the decisions......

Reduced Capital Cuts

In view of the fact that the reduction of capital investment by £2oo,000,000 announced by Sir Stafford Cripps over a month ago was generally regarded as insufficient there can......

Human Rights

The second meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which opened at Geneva on Monday, will, it seems, find the same difficulty in achieving agreement as other......

Indian Uncertainties

Bad news from India in the last few days has been satisfactorily scarce, but whether conditions there represent an uneasy and evan- escent peace or the transition to a period if......

Interim Aid

After a slow, pernickety debate of the kind to which European students of American politics are now accustomed, the United States Senate put on a spurt last Monday and suddenly......