... CHEVALIER MARLENE Photographed by Angus McBcan. During the war Marlene Dietrich entertained thousands of French troops in North Africa. Recently her war work was given official recognition at the French Embassy in Washington. She was made a Chevalier ...

... managing director of J. L. P. Lebegue and Co. Ltd., the well-known French wine shippers. Mr. Prince, who served in North Africa in World War II., is seen in his firm's cellars Underneath the Arches at London Bridge, where he holds his now internationally famous ...

... brothers Frank and Victor Hewitt, Sammy Walker, recip of sixteen caps, captain of the British touring side in South Africa before war; R. R. Chambers, R. H. Thompson and Desmond McKibbin, tl resent captain of the Instonians. The club is always been served ...

... is a keen tennis player, but his main hobbies are gardening and agriculture, and having spent some years in Central Africa before the war, he is well-versed in tropical conditions. Lady Arundell shares these interests with enthusiasm, and to the lovely ...

... spread this motto throughout the world. She spreads it by dancing and singing, and thus conquers France, Europe and Africa. When war breaks out, the fairy again appears. This time she says Josephine, you must fight and suffer to free the victims of hate ...

... development of areas of East Africa since the war, and the conferring of the status of a city on Nairobi, which only fifty years ago was a small collection of huts in the Kenya bush, has led to many comparisons between life in Africa to-day and at the beginning ...

... statesman whose austere appearance never won him the public interest he might have achieved. It was in his reign in South Africa, after its war, that he nursed a school of bright young men, one of whom was the Mr. Geoffrey Dawson who twice became editor of The ...

... d that even the Sahara was once a forest and that this famous desert, too, was man-made those of us who saw North Africa during the war, with the Sahara getting closer and closer to the sea, found it hard to realise that it was once the granary of the ...

... backgrounds, to see for themselves. Thus Rhodes, although a native of New Zealand, spent many months in various parts of Africa studying the war against the locusts; Kruger, likewise, lived in Tangier to obtain the knowledge and experience which he required for ...

... Illingworth's brother, the late Col. W. B. Wilberforce, who commanded the Durham Light Infantry and was killed in North Africa during the war, and of Mrs. Lucas, who now lives at Foswell House, Auchterarder, in Perthshire. He is in his last year at Oxford, ...

... Allies in Rome and mar ried there after the war. They now make their home at French Hoek, I South Africa, and farm J. K. de Vries ...

... The Tragedy of South Africa By JOHN CONNELL THROUGHOUT a luminously bright April day a good many years ago-- early in World War II, when for officers posted in a hurry to the Middle East the prescribed route was by sea to Cape Town, by rail across the ...