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10. His April Budget increases formed a very large part in the retail price index increase during that month. 11. The Treasurer introduced a Bill to implement the Government's plan to give preferential taxation treatment to life insurance companies. 12. In the past few years coordination agencies have been created by the Government to include a Foreign Exchange Committee and an Internal Finance Committee; and the Central Bank and the Ministries of Finance, Commerce and State Enterprises exert some influence in this sphere. 13. The three U. N. men will have a meeting with the Foreign Secretary at his official- Foreign Office country house in Buckinghamshire. On Monday he flies off to Washington for a SEATO Ministers meeting, but the U. N. mission is expected to remain in London until Tuesday. 14. A week of county council election opened in England and Wales yesterday when Monmouthshire and Norfolk went to the polls. 15. Public support for the railway strike decision is growing. This is shown in an opinion poll published in yesterday's Mail. 16. The protest is against National Coal Board redundancy notices to 140 miners, mainly young men of under 21, which take effect today. 17. The new way is to form an association of monopoly capitalist states which are industrially powerful in order collectively to exploit the underdeveloped and raw material production countries of the world. 18. Reflecting on last week's disastrous local election results most Labour MPs have at last realized that their Prime Minister's home and foreign policies are vote-losers. 19. The World Peace Council has always sought to keep the door open between the opposing sides in our divided world because peace in this nuclear age demands coexistence as the condition of survival. 141
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