24 AUGUST 1929, page 2

Naval Reduction Already The Negotiations Between Mr....

and the American Ambassador are bending into shape the intractable difficulties of naval agreement. We have referred in our first leading article to the Prime Minister's......

American Foreign Policy Although President Hoover Is...

watching and • waiting period, all the information from the United States which reaches us suggests that a vast change is coming over the policy of Washington. There will be, if......

The Cotton Trade The Patience And Determination Of Sir...

Wilson have been rewarded. On Thursday, August 15th, the negotiating Committees of employers and operatives reached agreement, and so terminated the undignified broil in the......

The Case For Parity Was Long Ago Admitted ; The

problem is to express it in terms which satisfy two countries with totally dissimilar requirements. How widely the conversations have ranged is implied by a report in the Daily......

Further Complications Are The Facts That The Young Plan Is

designed to come into force on September 1st, and that the authors of the plan deliberately arranged for the reduced German payments to be retrospective if for any reason the......

The Wool Trade The Other Side Of The Picture, Unfortunately,

is pre- sented by the wool trade, in which the events of the last few days have brought about a deadlock absurdly like that which has been so generally condemned by public......

Coal And Common Sense A Further Conference Of Colliery...

held last week, has issued a statement which inspires con- fidence in the ability and willingness of the coal industry to achieve Rationalization by its own unaided efforts.......

The Arbitration Board Held Its First Sitting At The...

Town Hall on Wednesday. It was arranged that the Master Cotton Spinners' Associations and the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Associations would give their evidence......