Indian In m than one respect Sir James the only difference being the Budget Cris t Budget offers a contrast Grigg's last Budget offers a contras the Bi tish Bu lor 1929-40 absence of swastika badges, and compulsion in. He published one daily paper in Prague, and was known to have subsidized a number of less important prov periodicals. He was permitted to have his party-days, so well-known in Germany, and had as much liberty of speech as anyone covid hope to have in any part of the world.
To assume that the German minority in Czechoslovakia was Germanic is as erroneous as to say that the Slovaks were Russians For, whilst their language was identical, their characters were essentially Austrian and Gemuetlichkeit reigned supreme.
Business, however was becoming worse from from year to year, unemployment figures rose consistent and there was no prospect of improvement as long as the unnatural economic barriers between central-European nations were being maintained. Factories had been closed since 1931, and the workers relied entirely on an insufficient dole made available by the Prague Government. Hen-loin told them of the comparative well-being of the Czechs and the Slovak: who, with agriculture as their main means of livelihood, were independent of foreign trade at least to a certain extent.
In the boom years of 1925 to 1929, the industrial part of Czechoslovakia, mostly in Bohemia where the majority of German: lived, knew an unprecedented prosperity which made the subsequent lull in trade, all the more felt. Cigars were lighted with banknotes and bathtubs were brought into cabarets so as to permit exhilarated lady patrons to take champagne baths in the middle of the floor. No-one thought of the future and, remaining faithful to the age-old saying "that easily earned money is easily spent, the majority of Germans found themselves with but a few thousand kronen in their bank accounts, when world depression set in.
Grumbling started and positions in the postal, railway and other services, which had been scorned before, owing to the low salaries paid, were demanded by the Germans. As the Czech Government had to fill haze situations with the only persons offer-as one confidently predict ats out the "Economist." In the first place, the Indian Budget is balanced without borrowing. In the d place, it is balanced by important increase of taxation third place. it is balanced only because the cost of defence services, so far from rising, is expected to fall below the revised estimate for 1938-39. This economy is rendered possible by an increased contribution from United Kingdom funds to help meet the improved rates of pay and conditions of service in the army. by the withdraw certain British units Lum India, he whole future ary Finance will turn on the held Committee which recent-
India's defence problem. t Clubb this night Mr. the hilatelist, askr us were we any of e that our British postage stamps be the cneNe post age stamps in the world that have not the name of their country imprinted upon them? Which we none of us were. Nay, for my part I must confess that I hed never eryon noticed the absence of Gt. Britains name on our stamps. Whereupon Hibbins went on to acquaint us of this country's having been the Ist in the world to issue postage stamps, with e incoming of the penny post in 1840, and it was 10 yrs. or more before any other country our lead. Meanwhile our singularity ad made any specification of Gt. e on our stamps unnecessaire. And what had been at Ist omitted as a sheer super-was afterward continued by sheer force of habit, and soe hath remained ever since.
h is, me thin a notable instance of the servative instincts of our people; who, however revolutionary some of them may be in politics, are in the orindary affairs of life what Unkle Athanasius did use to call "As-i was-in-the-beginning-is-now-and ever-shall-be' to a man Trail of The Report of the Committee of In-5 quiry into the Anti-Tuberculosis Ser-Poverty vice of Wales and Monmouthshire reveals housing and sanitary conditions so shocking as to be almost sub-human, says "Time and Tide" "The Times," while giving ful prominence to the Report, points out in den the good records of Cardiff, Den-high and Flint, and suggests that "there may be danger" in placing all the emphasis on the faults of local authorities, and that "the personal element deserves, perhaps, rather more attention than it has received." But we ourselves find it difficult to see how the personal element can come into play where (to take only one example) the infected and the infected are obliged to sleep in the same bed. Nor can it be only by chance that the incidence of tuberculosis is highest in those rural areas such erioneth, Carnarvon, Cardigan and Anglesey, where the extent of overcrowding, due to extreme poverty, is greatest. Practically all the ills to which the Report gives publicity seem to be due to failure to take advantage of the Local Government Act of 1933, which empowered the smaller and poorer districts to amalgamate. Such a step would obviously make it feasible to appoint fully qualified medical officers and sanitary inspectors with better salaries, scope for enthusiasm and fuller po present there are actually many sind as with the legal status of boroughs or urban district councils which can only be compared to the "rotten boroughs" which were distranchased by Lord John Russell's Reform Act of 1832, Three of these areas have a population of less than 1,000 each, with a penny rate. Is there anything surprising in: the re-sultan economy in social services?
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