... I Visit the Moribund League By Ferdinand Tuohy IN the last days of September the Swiss Con federation was planning to move the League of Nations Secretariat to the town of Fribourg. It was thought that Mussolini might attack in the direction of Savoy, many of whose inhabitants had been warned by the French authorities to hold themselves in readiness for evacuation, and Geneva was deemed all ...

... LOOKING AHEAD Clever Buying J\[ow in Anticipation of the J\[ew Spring Styles will Undoubtedly Save Many Pounds Later On MONEY is not the one thing that a woman needs if she is to be well dressed. It is not even the most important thing, for experience is most quickly bought when it proves expensive. It is mainly a question of buying with one's eye on the future, and of knowing what one can ...

... In Lighter Vein Pictures from France and the U.S. Miss Sai Shoki, the celebrated Japanese dancer, sitting among her baggage on detraining at the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, following her return from the United States, where she has just completed a successful tour ECHO DE PARIS Many folk in the 8th District of Paris know You You, the little dog who helps his mistress deliver the morning papers, ...

... When WINTER GRIPS the ROADS Hints to Safer Driving on Ice and Snow By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (CM of I he Course, SrooWandi) THE recent spell of cold weather produced conditions on the roads which many motorists have never before had to tackle. On some days, but more particularly during the evenings, one saw the most appalling exhi bitions, not only of bad driving, but of ...

... Insulin WHEN Holland freezes over, every Dutch man flings his bicycle into its shed and pulls his skates out of the fat. For weeks on end he thinks of nothing else but the long, sharp irons (usually about four inches longer than the boots to which they are bound), which have retained their shape, curled at the toe like a Turkish slipper, since the days when Ruysdael painted his countrymen ...

... PICTURE a comely principal boy, with a good voice, surrounded by stalwart men, also with good voices, singing olde-worlde songes with immense gusto. Imagine a comedian, fantastically attired, getting on intimate terms with the audience and saying of, or to, one member of it, That man's looking at me through race-glasses. He seems to think I'm a horse. Later the comedian gets even more ...

... Winter Sport on Europe's Roof A Party of Skiers from Wengen and Scheidegg Making an Excursion to the Jungfraujoch Snow is piled high in the streets of St. Moriiz, while round Adelboden. Andermatt, Davos, Grindelwald, Murren, Villars, Wengen, Zermatt, and most of the other big resorts ski-ing conditions are excellent, so it is little wonder that each day sees fresh departures from London and ...

... CTISBML, 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, January 4, 1939. 1939. THE YEAR OF FATE? --What is it to bring us? Has the long snow and frost killed, as we hope they have killed in the soil, some of the germs and pests that poisoned our lives last year? Has the kindly spirit of Christmas done anything to turn the hearts of men from the bitter insults and recriminations between nations ...

... Headlined EGYPT'S NEW PRINCESS MAKES HER BOW: Princess Ferial, six-weeks-old daughter of King Farouk and Queen Farida, pictured in the arms of her English nurse, Miss Winifred Johnson, when last week she v.- as shown to the Cairo crowds for the first time. Princess Ferial is not the heir-presumptive, as by a decree issued in 1922 by the late King Fuad the succession to the Egyptian throne was ...

... COMBATING THE FLOOD MENACE in FENLAND Strengthening the Dykes After the Great Thaw Roads Blocked in Kent as the Medway Rises WORKING AGAINST TIME Men building up a dyke at Welney, Norfolk, where strenuous measures were taken last week to prevent a recurrence of the fen country floods. _ r- L Low-lying parts of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire were actu ally inundated just after Christmas and it ...

... SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL, leader of the U.S. delegation to the Eighth Pan American Conference, being greeted by Senora Benavides, wife of President Benavides of Peru (second from right), at a reception held at the Torre-Tagle Palace, Lima. The conference began in the second week in December and has very largely resolved itself into a battle of wits between those who would have the ...

... _ Tnm ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW LIFE: Young German Jews on board the liner Galilea in which they journeyed recently from Trieste to Tel Aviv, Palestine, after receiving intimation that arrangements had been made for them to live in the Holy Land under the adoption scheme by which it is hoped that some six thousand refugees will eventually be accommodated THE NEW PORT OF TEL AVIV where several ...