... EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF ARMENIA The Photographic Records of a Journey of Exploration SUPERB INDIVIDUALITY is the keynote of the architectural style of this monastic church at Haghpad in the province of Koukarkh, Armenia. The picture, together with the others on this page and the next, was taken by Mr. Eric King during a recent visit to this land where Christianity became the official state ...

... MEAGRE VEGETABLE A stall in Austria, where DISPLAY there is much shortage of foodstuffs POLISH EAGLE It has been removed from VANISHES the door of the Danzig Senate House during the past year u ■■■_■■■ in I --^1 i^--l I I --If EVIDENCE OF OLD The Polish eagle in carved relief POLISH DAYS: with the arms of Danzig still stands in the old port ...

... IT is a curious fact that, at the nadir of its dark night of the soul, modern Mexico has discovered what Cortez was looking for-- gold. The goldfield, mostly a placer field, is situated about 12 miles from the one- time sleepy town of Magdalena, in the state of Sonora. Magdalena is no longer a sleepy town. To-day it is the off-take or the springboard to the goldfield, a boom town, with its own ...

... European Kaleidoscope: BELGIUM'S APPEAL When the representatives of the seven nations comprising the Oslo Powers met in Brussels last week King Leopold FOR PEACE made a stirring appeal for peace. Above, from left to right, are M. Bech (Luxembourg), M. Pierlot (Belgium), M. Richard Sandler (Sweden), M. Koht (Norway), M. Munch (Denmark), M. Erkko (Finland), and M. Van Kleffens (Holland) ...

... A SNAPSHOT IN WHITEHALL on Thursday afternoon, August 24, when the district was thronged OUR FOREIGN MINISTER visits the Premier. Below-- Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary (on left), walking to Downing Street mwjA. -v Xtmi y viauw wnrvv. ..-4.. THE CROWD AT WESTMINSTER ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, AS THE COMMONS MET TO PASS THE EMERGENCY BILL SIR ROBERT VANSITTART, chief dip lomatic adviser to the ...

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... Exodus in Three Directions ENGLISH TOURISTS A large number of English tourists were caught upon the Continent by the sudden CROWD STEAMERS heating up of the crisis news. From Dieppe, where this picture was taken, services were running in triplicate, but this only partially eased the situation. Over eighty cars were marooned on the quayside, waiting to rejoin their owners w jkh hl u Jm a am ...

... Guarding National Treasure A COLOSSAL TASK The great storehouse of priceless objects in FOR BRITISH MUSEUM Bloomsbury has been the scene of an inten sive evacuation of delicate objects which have been taken to places of safety. Only readers were admitted to the building this week BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL In various parts of the City and Westminster HOUSES EVACUATE commercial and financial houses ...

... Larchant, near Fontainebleau. Sunday, August 27, 1939. HERE at Larchant is an absolutely typical French village, which, on the border of Fontainebleau Forest, is nevertheless considered to be in the greater Parisian area. Despite the fact that the international political situation is perfectly well understood to be, and to have been for some few months, extremely delicate, and the present ...

... ARMENIA'S WEALTH of ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE A Photographic Record of a Journey Among the Little=known Remains of this Antique Land Armenian ecclesiastical architecture, which should com mand such special attention through the fact that Armenia was the first land to adopt Christianity as its official religion, is a distinctly neglected subject, many reference books of good repute being very ...

... A SURE SIGN OF CRITICAL TIMES Standing in the open street, Parisians read the latest news of the international situation RAPPEL French troops reading the posters calling up certain classes of reservists which placed France with 1.600,000 IMMFDIAT troops under arms. Following the recall to the colours of reservists whose mobilisation papers bear the numbers 3 and 4, reservists whose ...

... THE BRITISH NAVY IN BEING AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION Sp%aLg^ere Vessels to Left Show Warships in Service (All Ships Shown to Scale) mi 1 1 ii i in i- r TTT--nnMn-- HMMir i m nwninaMiniiiiiwm ¥i---- --i-- mt tfirniMtfi irr r Vessels to Right Indicate Ships Under Construction T hey are Shown in Low Tone Outlines To,al Vessels of the British Fleet in Service (on left), and Vessels Under ...