21 JANUARY 1938, page 3

Overcrowding In Mental Hospitals The Facts Revealed By...

report of the Board of Control for 1936, which was issued on Monday, reveals a deplorable state of over-crowding in mental hospitals through- out the country. The mental......

For The Conservatives It Remains A Thoroughly...

can make use of the national appeal in the constituencies and in the House of Commons they are provided with a Front Bench much stronger in personnel than any they could muster......

Food In War-time The Minister For Agriculture Was Not...

expansive when he spoke on the Government's agricultural policy at a Farmers' Union dinner on Tuesday. As he justly said, the Government could adopt either an attitude of......

The Liberal Nationals Have Made The Mistake Of Being Too

accommodating. Occasionally individuals have taken an independent line. On no single occasion, however, has their rank and file ever made a stand against anything the Govern-......

The National Labour Group Have Had The Good Fortune To

secure the adhesion of two eminent publicists, Mr. Harold Nicolson and Commander Stephen King-Hall. (It is a pity that the latter has not yet found a path to West- minster.)......

Parliamentary Notes Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

once described as " the Ministry of nearly all the talents " is now well into its seventh year. The experiment of National Government has lasted longer than anyone could have......

Public Works And Slump Sir Richard Holt, Chairman Of Martins

Bank, together with most other authorities, rightly deprecates undue pes- simism over the possibilities of an impending slump. He does, however, discern today a " hesitancy " in......