7 APRIL 1939, page 2

* * * * Croats And Serbs The Favourable Reports

of the progress of the negotiations between the Yugoslav Prime Minister, M. Tsvetkovitch, and the Croat leader, Dr. Matchek, are of good omen for the peace of South-East Europe.......

The Far Eastern Fisheries The Long Continued Dispute...

and the Soviet Union has once again been settled by a compromise, which may prove to be only temporary. By the agreement signed in Moscow on Sunday, the U.S.S.R. grants Japan......

Elections In Denmark The General Election In Denmark Has...

little change in the position of the parties ; and the Socialist Prime Minister, Herr Stauning, now in his tenth year of office, can proceed with his constitutional reforms.......

The Rajkot Ruling The Decision Given By Sir Maurice Gwyer,

the Chief Justice of India, in the dispute between Mr. Gandhi and the Thakor Saheb of Rajkot has considerable psychological im- portance. This, it will be remembered, was the......

French Trade In The Balkans The Terms Of The Trade

agreements with Rumania and Yugoslavia recently signed by France are now published. The treaty with Yugoslavia is designed to encourage French exports, to facilitate the......

Bel Gium's Elections The Verdict Of The Belgian Electors...

a good deed in a naughty world; and Belgium now seems to have good prospects of extricating herself from the morass of internal difficulties into which she had fallen. The first......

Germany And The Baltic The Announcement, Reported In The...

Vorposten last week, that Memel is immediately to be fortified as a naval base emphasises the strategic value of Herr Hitler's latest acquisition. Memel, in the centre of the......