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The Birmingham will be sent by post at the rate of Is. 3d. weekly. fidential, reached at Bermuda, might have come under consideration. It served two purposes, nevertheless.

6n the one hand, more than enough was said, first by Mr. Peake, fresh from the West Indian conferences, and later by Mr. Eden, to repel the charges of indifference, lethargy, dilatory and half-hearted methods so freely flung about by people who seem to assume that nothing but official good will is wanting. In the this point Mr. Eden was not less explicit than the was made plain to all with eyes to see that no expedients now adopted by the by any other sympathetic Government can touch more than the fringes of the is not a Jewish problem heart remains hardened, and German policy remains what it is.

It may be that Palestine to-day has room for many thousands of Jewish children; it may be that room can presently be found in North Africa for many thousands in either case there remains the fundamental problem, which is to find the war lasts, for the wholesale migration of vast numbers of unfortunates, helpless in the hands ofsthe enemy, whom the enemy will not let "go. For the rest, if already there are over 400.000 refugees in India, in Palestine, 40,000 (entirely maintained by us) in Persia, and the East African colonies are full of them, it cannot fairly be said that our contribution to" the policy of rescue )is entirely unworthy of British traditions; and if, to-day, we are still finding hospitality in this country for Jews and others at the rate of nearly 1.000 per month, again there is something in which to find ground satisfaction, rather than for complaint. Complaint, it would seem, is inspired by what is represented as an unduly discriminatory policy on the part of the Home Office. To countries of primary however, it can make but little difference whether we relieve them of ablebodied persons, willing either to work or to fight for the day of national of others. 80, to complaints upon this score Mr.

Peake had a good he had when he pointed out how small is our inducement specially to facilitate the immigration of persons like the parents of Miss odd protege, agent in Turkey, wdiose proper place, were they admitted into the country, would be an internment camp in the Isle of Man. albert medal for SIR JOHN RUSSELL RESEARCHES IN SOIL It was announced at a meeting of the Royal Society of Arts in London yesterday that the highest award of tho society, the Albert Gold Medal, will be conferred this year upon Sir John Russell, Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station. The medal is for distinguished merit iu promoting arts, manufactures ana General Smuts was awarded the medal in 1942 and Mr. Roosevelt in 1941. Other recipients include Faraday, Pasteur, Kelvin, Edison, Lister, Lodge and Rutherford.

Rothamsted celebrates its centenary this year, and Sir John Russell is retiring from its direction. He has held the post since 1912. Sir Edward Crowe (president of the society) yestorday said it is likely that Sir medal will be inscribed his services to agriculture in many lands and notably for his researches in soil War Survey The tremendous reception given Mr. Churchill by Congress yesterday registered clearly two vital elements in American opinion satisfaction with the results of Anglo-American cooperation in war; confidence in Mr. Churchill not only as a strong wall against defeat but also as an organiser of victory.

Seventeen months ago, as the Prime Minister said quite it was almost enough for him that Pearl Harbour had bound the United States to us by a common peril, by solemn faith and high purpose to this fearful quarrel through at' all costs to the It helped him, as it helped Great Britain, to bear the heavy blows soon to fail on us and the Dutch in the Far East. To-day have got far beyond that; we are concerting the retrieval of what we have lost and what our Allies lost; the repayment, with interest, of the hard blows. That is due, primarily, to the in which Great Britain and the United States have worked together not only to build up the armed forces needed for victory and to equip them adequately but to use them to the best possible advantage. Seventeen months ago, in Washington, Mr. Churchill heard of the fall of Tobruk and the loss of many prisoners.

In Washington, yesterday, he was able to celebrate the elimination of the Axis from Africa. That elimination, he reminded Congress, is the result of the first big combined Anglo-American operation of the war. The-combination was not one only of armies. Naval and shipping resources were pooled. American war factories reinforced British strength in tanks.

American aircraft and air crews helped establish that great Allied superiotity, over the battlefield and over the adjacent seas, more than any other single factor to ruin the Axis planning. This combination of all resources continues and continues fruitfully. American air-power is helping in that bombing attack on Germany and Italy of which Mr. Churchill spoke both soberly and hopefully. American air-power and seapower and shipbuilding power are combined with ours to defeat the gravest menace of all, attack on our sea lines.

All the resources of American war production are available to overwhelm the enemy. Not least important, British and American troops atid staffs and commanders have learned, in North Africa, how to fight and work together. The problem now is two-foldhow to make the most of the superiority in man-power and machine-power our alliance gives us; how to seize, before it escapes us, the opportunity offered by the victory in Africa. On these matters Mr. Churchill, speaking in public, had to speak in general terms.

He did, however, say plainly that still regard 'the European enemy as the one to be beaten though he held out hope that, before long, we shall be able to move effectively in the Far East. (What he had to say of Japan, even though parenthetical, still deserves careful reading, perhaps especially his reference to the bombing, soon, of Japan But undoubtedly more important are the tribute to Eussia and the warning that Eussia, hard as she has fought and much as she has suffered, may still have to face an ordeal not less severe than any she has endured in the past. There is a difference, though. Eussia knows to-day that her Allies have now both the will 'and the power to take from her shoulders a good deal of the burden she has borne so stoically and with such courage. How and where and when it is to be done are things the Eussians, equally with the Axis, may not learn till military' events disclose them.

It had to be done; to-day it can be done. So with China, whose service to the Nations in Asia is comparable with that of Eussia in Europe. Britain and the United States can do now, or soon will be able to do, what they have longed to do for a year and a half; and they will be able to do it because they have developed, as North Africa has shown, a technique of co-operation. For the rest, the Prime speech is an exhortation to all of us not to relax any effort. This for two reasons.

One is that the Axis is still a deadly dangerous foe, ready to take advantage not only of any strategic mistake but of any national slackness. The other is that humanity cannot tolerate the war lasting a day longer than it need. Nazis and Fascists cannot win now. They might, like Samson, pull down in their own destruction the whole temple of civilisation. But only a long drawn-out ar would give them that opportunity.

Refugees The Commons debate on refugees yesterday would have rather more enlighteningito those who spoke or it been held in secret, so that conclusions, at present con- Our Priceless Heritage Mr. R. S. Hudson (Minister of who presided, congratulated Sir John Russell on the award. It was encouraging to find, he said, that the society is taking an interest in one of our main fundamental We must get the public at large to realise that the soil of Great Britain is a priceless heritage.

If agriculture is to he carried on over any lengthy in the life of this earth a century is a very short space of is essential that the soil should he maintained in a condition to enable it to go on producing food year after year, season after season. Neglect of this fundamental principle resulted in untold misery in the United States, in the intractable problem of soil erosion and the dust Neglected on a minor scale in this country, it resulted in the millions of unfertile acres that we were faced with three years ago, when wg started our intensive plomghing-up campaign. I stress this point because there is considerable danger of the public being misled by enthusiasts into thinking that you can order any particular type of food to be grown to the exclusion of some other type in any particular Sir John Russell, in a paper, said calorie production must he the first aim in a Continental Europe left in a terrible state of hunger and destitution; but if that policy became permanent we should tend to get back to glutted world markets. On the other hand, adoption by the European countries of a policy of good nutrition would involve large importations of grain, fruit, meat, feeding-stuffs and fertilisers. would for many years solve the problems of the great primary producing countries and go far to eliminate those big price fluctuations that have done so much harm in the past.

The decision does not rest entirely with us, but with Europe and the U.S.S.R. iA policy of peace and plenty would enable international trade to restart on a sound FOOD OFFICE STAFFS CIVIL SERVICE ALLEGATIONS A of non-Ciril Service officials from local food offices was demanded at the resumed conference of the Civil Service Clerical Association in London yesterday. A motion was passed that permanent Civil Servants only should be Food Executive Officers. Mr. L.

C. White, general secretary, described food office administration as a form of organisation which has resulted in all sorts of Eoliticai jobbery in areas -where memers of the Town Council, whom the Town Clerk wants to keep sweet, are given Mr. C. Mann (Birmingham) said that the experience of Birmingham, at one time all the Conservative agents got appointments in food made it vital'that'there should he a THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943 LONDON LETTER 88, Fleet Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday Night A Secret Weapon The mines used by the R.A.F.

to shatter the Ruhr dams are new and remarkable weapons. They are the result of research that has gone on incessantly for something like two years. That in itself is proof that the demolition of these important military objectives has been in the mind of Bomber Command for a long since the early days of the war, in fact. Vulnerable spots in the German military and industrial organisation were closely studied, and each of them given a place in a carefully-worked-out programme, the end of which has not yet been reached. Everybody is still talking about the daring with which the attack was pressed home and the astonishing success it achieved.

New photographs taken by reconnaissance aircraft show that the flooded area is still extending. In some parts of Dortmund. I hear, there are about four feet of water; and there is reason to think that, in addition to sweeping away bridges and causing other and widespread havoc on the surface, water has penetrated into some of the mining shafts. Thanksgiving in St. It would have been difficult to find any class of the community not represented at Thanksgiving Service in St.

for the victory in Tunisia. The King and the Queen, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, sat under the centre'of the dome. Workers from the mines, from transport and fishing AA-ork, and from the land, and wounded men from the Services in hospital blue, assembled cheek by jowl with Mr. Maisky, Mr. Winant and other diplomats, and with high officers of the United Nations.

Cabinet Ministers and Mr. Speaker were there, and the Lord Mayor and his civic colleagues. Before this great and representative congregation the Archbishop of Canterbury voiced the thanks to GoJ the success Ho has vouchsafed to our arms and those of our Allies in North The Lesson (from the Book of Samuel), read by the Dean, was well chosen in confident-words that the bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with From first to last tjie service left a glowing feeling that the dark days of the Avar are behind us, and carried an assurance that North Africa is but a prelude to other, and greater, against the enemy. Labour Party Split Disagreements in the Labour Party the Old-age Pensions Bill, of which I wrote last week, came to' a head to-day in an open revolt by a considerable section of the Socialist rank and file. A specially called was the third time the party had discussed its attitude to the attended by Mr.

Attlee in an attempt to bring the discontented Members into line and, although Mr. Herbert Morrison and Mr. Dalton supported him, he failed in his purpose. Out of 172 Labour Members, I understand ninety-three were present, and, of these, forty-eight accepted Mr. counsel and voted for giving support to the Bill.

Forty-five voted against. That was not the end of the trouble. So far from being ready to bow to the verdict of the meeting, the substantial minority remains rebellious and is drafting a reasoned amendment for the rejection of the Government Bill. Strictly, by the rules of the party, the forty-five, whose number may bo increased by some not present at the meeting, make liable to disciplinary action for refusing to accept a party decision; but nobody supposes that there will bo any attempt to reprove such a large section. In the past, when even one or two members have gone their own way, there has been reluctance to bring them to book.

Japan and Russia The impression here is that, in spite of a certain truculence in her manner, Japan is unlikely to pick au open quarrel with Russia. Japanese military commitments are heavy enough to call for the whole of her indeed are commitihents. There is no apparent reason for the sharp tone of the Japanese Note, and one can only speculate on the reasons that have prompted it. It may have been prepared under pressure from Germany, who would like nothing better than to divert the attention of Moscow to the Far East. Another possibility is that Tokio has taken this method of replying to a demand by some unofficial Americans for airfields on.

Russian soil, from which to carry on an offensive against Japan. Such a course would be only typical of Japanese tactics. No matter what may be behind the Note, the chances are that Japan and Russia will continue to live in a state of uneasy friendly relationship. The Refugee Problem The chief result of House of Commons debate on the refugee problem was to bring home to Members, and to the country, the insuperable difficulties of rescuing large numbers of victims from the Nazi grip. Sympathetic as was the Foreign Secretary in winding up the debate, he had to explain that, although 30,000 children could be accepted in Palestine, the enemy is not ready to facilitate their transfer.

The most frequently heard opinion in the debate was that the only way to succour the oppressed is to win the war as speedily as possible. Miss Rathbone made no secret of her dissatisfaction with the declarations, and particularly with the speech of Mr. Peaker, fresh from the Bermuda Conference, who sharply took her to task for statements in a pamphlet she has written on the subject. The Under Secretary to the, Home Office announced some concessions, but insisted that, in the admission of refugees, security considerations must be paramount. In order that more should be said than was said a secret sitting would be necessary.

In a public debate sucli as this, the Government spokesmen had to weigh their words lest the position and prospects of the oppressed were made even worse than they are. GENERAL VON PAY AS A PRISONER HE GETS £IG A MONTH Major Henderson (Financial Secretary, War Office), in the House of Commons yesterday, said General von Arnim would be treated in the manner appropriate to his rank, like other prisoners of war, in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. This Convention laid it down that officer prisoners of war should receive the rate of pay of their rank in their own Forces or in the Forces of the detaining Power, whichever is the less. United Kingdom officers in German and Italian hands were treated and paid in accordance with the Convention. Replying to a further question, Major Henderson said General von Arnim was paid £l6 a month and that would be paid to him in sterling.

A Member; Is income-tax deducted at the source? (Laughter.) No reply was given. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS cottage is not protected by Bent Acts arid on expiration of notice to quit you are entitled to possession if you have given notice within one month of your notice to quit to appropriate Committee Reg. 62 par. 4 (4 B) of Defence Regulations 1939. The Ministry, however, has power to take and to" sitting tenant.

ROYAL CRIPPLES HOSPITAL SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL STAFF A 100 per cent, increase in the waiting list of people needing treatment, in consequence of a smaller medical staff, was referred to at the annual meeting of the Royal Cripples- Hospital, Birmingham, held at the Woodlands, Northfield, yesterday. The Lord Mayor presided. H. F. Harvey, chairman of the Committee of Management, said the hospital had a fine lot of nurses, but it had a smaller medical staff to deal with increasing work, because the War Office and the Ministry of Health had taken one of their very active surgeons and others were they had only one house surgeon instead of three.

Thus, people were waiting for treatment and it was impossible to deal with them. Nearly 100,000 out-patient 'attendances were made daring the year, and this figure had increased by 33 per cent, in the last two years. No doubt the War Office and the Ministry felt that the Avar Avas the first consideration; but the hospital fekt those authorities were not quite as helpful as they might be in regard to medical staff. One or two surgeons might be released (on terms of being sent back, if wanted, at twenty-four hours notice) so as to help the hospital to carry on and reduce this heavy waiting list. The Lord Mayor referred to increasing hospital work and said the oply people avlio did not seem to realise this were those in the Government Department concerned.

He hoped the Government would tackle the matter in a more sensible way than they had some other matters; and he thought the hospitals of the city had to get together on the problein. Birmingham was an important industrial city. We could not afford to lose the services of any man or woman for a day longer than was essential. Birmingham had to provide the necessary hospital accommodation and medical and nursing staffs. As a city, Birmingham kneAv its needs; and he asked that those in control should listen to what the city had to say.

The Lord Mayor paid warm tribute to the matron, the nurses and the staff of the hospital, as well as to its many voluntary helpers. Alderman T. B. Pritchett, president" of the hospital, speaking of the magnificent team of people working for and backing up the hospital, said it made him feel that municipalisation or nationalisation Avas some distance away, I cannot help but feel that nationalisation or municipalisation may, in their train, bring a dissipation of all the wonderful effort which is being registered he said. The honorary treasurer said that, while expenditure had increased by £11,500, income had increased by £12,000 and the year ended with a surplus of £1,300.

THE LIVERPOOL ORCHESTRA SECOND PROGRAMME OF RUSSIAN MUSIC Last concert at Birmingham Town Hall was artistically superior in several ways to that heard on Tuesday. Rachmaninov commemoration continued with two more works for piano and third Concerto, in minor, and the Rhapsody on a Theme by Both dre less popular than the minor Concerto, hut certainly more interesting. They have their faults, especially that of dragging in luscious tunes against their nature, and the Concerto also suffers from an excess of notes and of difficulties not justified by any commensurate surface brilliance. Fortunately, Mr. mastery was proof against this defect.

He performed some of the most hair-raising feats with an air of calm detachment that made one forget those uncomfortable discrepancies between effort and effect; and concentrate on the virtue, which lies in a kind of smothered eloguence. All through the first few pages of the work this is maintained with extraordinary skill No. 3 might have been one of the great piano concertos if it were not marred by all kinds of disproportions elsewhere. The Paganini Rhapsody is an oddity, by no means satisfying all the way through; but it has addnd of bitter, sardonic quality which somehow comes refreshingly from the composer of so music that is inordinately effusive. A minor Capriccio for solo violin was by no means exhausted by treatment in the driest of his variation works and Rachmaninov, without being very noticeably more modern, managed to extract a good deal more from apparently so unpromising tune.

But, of course, the secret of his success is precisely that this is not much of a tune, hut makes a very good bass. Melodies can be varied only within strict limitations; it is basses that make the best bases for such works as this Rhapsody, which ought to have been called what it Here, again, Mr. Moiseivitch played extremely well, in just the way the music demanded. The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, too, was in good too forthcoming in the matter of tone, but more accurate as well as more flexible. Dr.

Sargeni had everything in admirable control. His reading, as well as the playing, of Romeo and Juliet at the end, was remarkably fine. The concert had begun well enough, hut hardly more, with Prince Igor Overture; it finished very impressively. E. CLEARANCE OF IRON SCRAP QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Clifton Brown asked -tdie House of Commons yesterday if the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works would take steps to clear up the large dumps of iron scrap which had been lying for years some country villages before he proceeded with further requisitions from private owners.

Mr. George Hicks replied that systematic arrangements were in operation for the clearance of village dumps. FIFTY YEARS AGO A military cycle section is about to be formed in connection with the Birmingham Rifle Brigade, and about twenty volunteers aro required for its formation. Volunteers ill bo accepted both from the Regiment and from outside, preference being given to experienced cyclists with machines that will stand rough work. Cushion and solid tyres are generally considered better for the purpose than pneumatic.

Members will be expected to provide their own machines and kit, with the exception of arms and uniform, which Ti)) be supplied by the Regiment. May-20, 1893;) LETTERS TO EDITOR RED CROSS SUNDAY Sir, you allow ine to remind jour readers that Sunday ngxt (May 23rd) will he Red Cross and St. John Sunday. Special services will be held in churches of all denominations throughout the country. Under the symbol of the Cross, the Christian spirit of mercy and charity gleams through the tragic horrors of war.

Its light penetrates even to the battlefields, the ruins of bombed houses and the prison camps in enemy countries, thanks to the services rendered, to the sick and wounded, the bereaved and those in enemy hands, by the Joint Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and ithe Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The thoughts of the nation are at all times with the men and women of the Fighting Services. Their prayers, and the spiritual help and strength their prayers can bring, are asked on Sunday for those who minister to the needs of the suffering and oppressed. Lyttox, Chairman, Churches Committee, Red Cross and St.

John. St. Palace. May 18. ROAD ACCIDENTS Sir, March 115 children were killed and 1.904 injured on the roads, a further increa'se.

Since my last letter children have had further instruction to behave not like children but like wise and adults. Whatever the effect of this teaching it is not enough to remedy the evil. As a motorist, I have had no warning to take more care, but I have been prosecuted for a technical offence by one of our drivers, and two of our blind workers have been blamed by a motorist because they were knocked down and injured by his cat in daylight near our workshops. The same efficiency hich is applied to technical motoring offences should be applied to killing and maiming. should be warned officially that from now on they will be held responsible for killing and injuring with the machine which is in their hands and ought to be under their control, and where the victims are young children or elderly or disabled Eersons the penalties should be eavier.

H. S. Edkins, General Supt. and Secretary, Royal Institution for the Blind. May 19.

FILMS IN BIRMINGHAM i SQUADRON LEADER Two British, war films, of sound quality, to be seen in Birmingham this week. At the Forum. Squadron Leader gives Eric Portman the opportunity of Sutting up another uncannily clever lazi alongside the astute submarine commander he contributed to 49th The immobile face and the steady cryptic eyes give a far keener impression of fanatical devotion to perverted duty than any of your gesticulating screamers whose sound and fury signifies nothing more than they proclaim. In Squadron Leader Portman plays the part of a German air ace wbo, by a senes of mischances, finds himself in England in the uniform of a British pilot. The real business is to show how he tries to get back to Germany.

The action moves between the fugitive in hiding, enemy agents doing odd jobs in hotels, and Scotland Yam quietly on the trail of both. The acting is unusually good. Ann Dvorak, as a Nursing Sister in a hospital, plays with a beautiful restraint; and for onoe we are shown Scotland Yard in action in a manner that probably approximates to the real thing. In fact, a seemly disci- Eline is the prevailing quality of the Im. An actor whom I could not identify gives a masterly performance in the role of a refugee working in a London hotel as cook but haunted by fear of the far-reaching arm.

Pitiable, pathetic, but shining with a dim gleam of suffused courage, this chef with his crushed spirit and broken English is as dramatic a figure as has spoken for the subdued peoples for a long time. At the Odeon, New Street, Ralph Richardson gives distinction to 1 lie Silver Fleet, a film about a Dutchman who serves his country by ostensibly collaborating with the Nazis. He produces ships for the Germans, but sees to it that something happens to them on their trial runs. If he can inveigle several prominent Nazis to go aboard for the trip, so much tho better, acting is a pattern of understatement, or rather a model of economy, admirably suited to the quiet efficiency of the Dutch patriot. Esmond Knight, as a prominent Nazi, gives the man a rough searing edge Tike the thrust of a rasp.

In both films, acting quality is as high as in any war pictures so far produced in England or Hollywood. T. C. K. LATEST WILLS Mr.

John Tibbits, of Warwick, for many years Clerk and Coroner for the Borough of Warwick, left £1,735 (net personalty Mr. Elias Henry Jones, of Bangor, for many years Registrar of the University College of North Wales, left £4,553 (net personalty Mrs. Georgina Reynolds Marshall, of Fownhope, Hereford, widow of Dr. Flamank Marshall, of Birmingham, left £19,422 (net personalty She died CROSSWORD PUZZLE, ACROSS 1' A go-between who Tribute paid to a scoundrel (9) Sunrise. (Auag.) (7) 34 Tlie boy in 35 Across may become one later on.

seld (Mil at a loss. 0 Short, sharp and pointed. (7) 10 Is it used to give a knock-out blow in the black-out? 5-4) 11 One who has gone a kmg way in a short time. (7) 12 Country-seat not used by its seeming owner. (9) 13 llejoiai as wrens.

(7) 21 Ax fainily aff air. (4) 22 Heber wrote of its coral strand. (5) 23 A sin 1-a address for you. (4) 24 Spirit of (6) (9) 35 I a large number the boy leads off, and I follow on behind. (7) 36 Cast these (Anatr.) (3-0) DOWN 1 A record made in a very short time.

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Repents 28, Rate 20. 33. Poached; 34. A Bad 36i Starve; 87. Nature.

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Pa sU FARMING IN DA TO COME A HOPEFUL VIEW POST-WAR CHAiNC (By Our Agricultural Correspon In one form or another means always by 1 tiou is being asked: Vvill a living to" be made on the aD peace comes? The farmer because he is for ever haunted ghost of the Corn Uroduct'O the repeal of which started 1 descent of agricultural after the last war. The wants an answer because, i JI mg numbers, he looks to er on the land as the best jU a ar living for his children; but wg it should be impossible to living there. While no 0 ta int! ailswer the question wither becausq the pattern of the world is by no means easy to it is at least. possible t0 intelligent conjectures, jaS a iso only ou past experience but the general run of things jt First, let us look at the 1 of the igricultural ledger- it, we shall be faced at tb re oOi the war with much expense e5 eS ditioning, by the certainty 1 fl el day wage rates for land 1 continuing, and by the oBSl having to farm wide hausted soil. The first is that can only be avoided at of decreased efficiency, but 1 io any serious importance, that farming is paying; so we keep agriculture reaonditioning can largely oVJ look after the that, where landlord, asi 1 occupier, lacks the necessary pfflf.

do necessary repairs and 1 ments, -the State should reasonahle credit facilities- too, with wages. No one eT tended for a moment 3 torf wages were satisi a lg pre-war days, and no one ol gm to-day wants to go back to th of cheap food at the cost tural ruin. Make farnu reasonable return on effort and, as in the case ot the money for a living wag jjUf forthcoming. The frightening of exhausted soils is actual! faced this current year, are being encouraged to las seeds arable fieltG that ro pn worn out by continuous 1 while maintaining the acreage by cashing in Vj lated fertility of still more Even so, it is the danger of soils, and above all of a humus reserves which, to most serious of the three de When we come to the of our predictions, the that every farmer thinks of 1 Will they be held at a rC jS level, or shall we repeat th to 1 ing experience of the last world prices for prime con i 0 slumped so disastrously? a the confidence of the farm muuity in the wisdom and pW of politicians has even recovered from the shock, repeal of the Corn I believe that an increasing tP of farmers shares my jp time we shall not be ca tgK! 8 wolves. My confidence baSed on the facts that, years after peace comes, 0 have to be controlled, the ni commodities bought by bulk and the vicious ri check, as it is in this cou Dtl idl by using the method of jf keep retail prices constant- bo so, it seems hardly hk having had managed 3 period of, say, ten years ox of readjustment after the shall in this generation dr to fhe old system of Ae 1 for himself and the devil What all this is that we, having been or this war into a svstem ot in 4 which was never fully evolvcOj last war, and having ll smoothly it works, believe, lightly discard it- In support of this hopetu reasonable price level is situation in regard to cl rre oi and food imports: for it likely that we shall be able, war, to overwhelm the olD -if with cheap imported food, a so desire.

So, on baj all jg guessing in a realm 'wherein to guess wrongly, it does that the future of British ture is very much was in 1918, when 1 economic and political 0 1 made it clearly impossible Corn Production Act to A A V' E- OLD EDWARDIAN THE D.S.C. A captain of the Old Rugby Football Club, of, John Evans. R.N'.V.K., and Mrs. Charles Evans, Road, Edgbaston, has ben J1 0 the D.S.C. for his exploit the action in which Acting F.

T. Peters since killed crash, gained the V.C. ty Lieutenant Evans, who 1S ot i nine, is one of a gi' oU Edwardian Rugby the Navy and in in any parts of the wond- at King High Street, and later joined 1 research staff of Cadbur.v^; The King, at Buckingl l3lll yesterday, knighted Mr- Fairey, chairman and joint director of the Fairey pany. Mr. Fairey nfr" Knighthood in 1942, but Director-General of the Commission in Washington him abroad until now.

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