... This Victory Week-End THIEI week-end Britain—or at least parts of it—will be celebrating victory la the Second World War. The country is not united in this peace observance bectuse not everyone is in agreement that the nation has just cause for jubilation ...

... Royal Hampshires' 250th Birthday CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7. In the earl• days of the second world war the regiment had 12 battalions but owing to the change of role. only live -two regular battalions and three territorial battalions were on active service ...

... AVOIDING WAR If Cher had not been that succession of Conservative Governments between the wars, the Second World War would never have happened. He (Mr. Bevan) was accused of being a fiery politician, but it was his duty to remember. because the electorate ...

... ooo thau that of the previous year. the first world war we had been taught the lesson but we didn't learn it. It took a second world war to drive / home the truth that Food is • ••Front” in war. And in peace! For yen eau never have town-pruaperity if 100 ...

... Lim Orsatham. aad Loogotoor Boy Scouts, and assisted Worldham Boy Scouts up to the oat'break of the second world war. Throughout the /second world war Mr. Hall was In the Chill Defence. He Is a member of Toc fl.. and a sideman at St. Lawrence's Pariah ...

... sensationally defeated the international chess-master a twice ,British champion William Winter, in 16 moves. Since the second world war. however, Pratten has devoted himself chiefly to organizing, and In 1951 was honoured by the International Chess Federation ...

... three years of the war and for two years was Chief of Naval Information. In his latest book, The British Navies in the Second World War. - • published to-day, he antes that apart from any pleasures taken on the Inter- Patlonal plane to control this terrible ...

... DIRE EFFECT Much dearly-acquired experience during the second world war leaves no excuse for disregarding the very serious menace offered by enemy - laid mines in the sea approaches to this island. in coastal waters, and in estuaries where shipping must ...

... ster casts and plaster beds. They started the first patients off, when the unit was formed in the early years of the second world war, with wheel-chair netball. Archery soon followed, so did billiards and snooker. Last year Dr. Guttman saw a dream come ...

... ray tube at the transmitter. which was the forerunner of the cameras in use to-day. Two days before the outbreak of the second world war. the Alexandra Palace television station closed down. It reopened on June 7. 1946, using the pre-war transmission standards ...

... In the first World War there was little need to think about British Columbia, Japan being then an ally. While in the second World War that ally was an enemy, not a great deal of naval strength was necessary, and Esquimalt was 'pretty well equipped for ...

... Raid Precaution Brigade, s, St John Ambulance and other organisations which did work of national importance during the Second World War? This question was posed by Mr. A. A. Perkins, South's% Area Secretary. addressing a cOßference of officials of the Hemp ...