7 MARCH 1947, page 16

School-leaving Age

Sta,—From the first of next month every child in this country is to stay at school until after he has reached the age of fifteen. In con- sequence there will for a year be no......

Mr. Bevin's Palestine Problem

SIR,—In so far as the Jewish problem is religious, there would appear to be no solution of it. The orthodox Jew accepts the utterances of his prophets as eternally binding, and......

Letters To The Editor

THE MINER AND THE NATION SIR, —The actual productive capacity of British coal mines today with their present equipment and man-power is not less than 250,000,000 tons per annum......

The Shortage Of Manpower

SIR, —If an individual were to borrow money to buy tobacco or grapefruit or to see films his sanity would be questioned, and yet we are using the American Loan for those......