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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 4

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COMMODITY CONTROLS The International Labour Office issues Intergovernmental Commodity Control Agreements (221 pp.), covering the pre-war agreements on wheat, sugar, tea, coffee, beef, tin, rubber, and cotton, and, in appendices, various conference and commission reports and resolutions and the operation of the war-time commodity control agencies. An introduction reviews the development of controls, policy statements, principles, methods, and legal and financial questions. RELIEF Another 1.L.0. publication, in the studies and reports series, is devoted to Co-operative Organisations and Post-war Relief (173 pp.), an exceedingly suggestive and constructive examination of the co-operative movement as one “capable of immediate adaptation, with a minimum of administrative apparatus, to urgent needs of the moment [such as relief in liberated territories], and, at the same time, able to reconcile the claims of both order and liberty in any lasting organisation of social life.” BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Mr W. P. Morrell, in Britain and New Zealand (Longmans. 67 pp.), briefly reviews the history of New Zealand as that of a British connexion, political, economic, social, and, in effect, spiritual. The pamphlet is one of the publishers’ series on the British Commonwealth, and an admirable addition to it.