31 OCTOBER 1947, page 3

National Security

Anxiety about the reduction of our armed forces was diminished but not dispelled by the statement of the Minister of Defence in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The Government's......

Capital For The Colonies

The first duty of the Overseas Food Corporation, which, together with the Colonial Development Corporation, will be set up under a Bill introduced in the Commons this week, will......

Forty Millions Off The Rates

In the year 1946-7 the ratepayers of England and Wales paid out about £63 millions for hospital and Poor Law services and received about £57 millions in block and supplementary......

At Westminster

T HE Debate on the Address is a great annual free-for-all, with the added attraction and excitement of personal contests between Party chiefs. It rather resembles the technique......