... IT is not without its significance that the United States has taken an unprece dented step in preparing for war by creating a national War Resources Board. The government has been careful to insist that this measure represents a general policy, and does not refer to any immediately contemplated emergency. At tne same time, tne tact tnat tne Doara lias Deen created indicates a present ...

... RADIOLYMPIA The brightly-lit stands of the various ONCF ACtAIN exhibitors dominated by the huge model of Broadcasting House. The large attend ances this year, even during the present crisis, have astonished even the manu facturers themselves, though the excellence of the various exhibits was bound to attract the crowds. The television exhibits, which were remarkably well dis played, were ...

... lothersills SEASICK REMEDY Quickly Relieves Travel Sickness 4 SPORTING PRINTS The value to-day of old Sporting Prints is a matter of common knowledge. He is a wise collector who takes the opportunity to acquire, before they are exhausted, copies of the limited editions of prints after LIONEL EDWARDS, the late GILBERT HOLIDAY. IVESTER LLOYD. FRANK H. MASON, and other famous sporting artists. ...

... The Astonishing Russo-German Pact Scenes at the Moment of Signing in the Kremlin, Moscow The two pictures given above record one of the most astonishing pacts made in the course of European history. It is hard to find a case where two important nations, endeavouring to make an agreement with a third nation, are suddenly informed that a fourth party has negotiated a definite pact at the same ...

... A.R.P. PREPARAT ions in London PILL-BOXES FOR THE SENTRIES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE The sugarloaf metal shelter was being placed around the courtyard of the Palace at the beginning of the week. This form of shelter is intended to provide cover for the solitary worker SANDBAGGING THE HOSPITALS OF THE METROPOLIS All over London preparations for possible air raids have been made this week. Count- ...

... A London Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, August 30, 1939. THE ALTERNATIVES.-- it is possible that before these lines are printed, we shall be at war with Germany. It is probable that before the next issue is due to appear, European war on a large scale will have broken out, and .if it be so, those of us who come out at the other end of the tunnel of horror must expect to ...

... 5 TRYING OUT Ihe I EVACUATION SCHEME for J LONDON'S CHILDREN THE main note, of course, children in all the excite- ment of an outing one or two here and there a bit pensive. Parents and guardians grave, alert, deter mined, resigned; superintendent and staff playing up to the general spree. Clockwork method, and action brisk without hurry, showing grasp on a long thought- out organisation; the ...

... Amsterdam, August 27, 1939. THE Dutch have no intention of being caught napping. In 1914 their mobilisation orders were out twenty-four hours before those of Germany and France; and again, to-day, an aggressor against Holland will find 400,000 sturdy Dutch soldiers there to meet him. Complete mobilisation orders have now been issued. The railway stations and trains are full of soldiers making ...

... I WITH THE ARMY In Training and on Manoeuvres 1 Men of a battalion of the Royal Artillery have a meal beside one of the guns, and by all outward sign, good digestion waits on appetite Left The H.A.C. in training for air defence two directors of large commercial firms man a height-finder Right While a battalion of the Hampshire Regiment practises camouflaging a wireless operator reports to ...

... PARIS CARRIES ON Dl. IRING A CRISIS WEEK New Pictures From the French Capif il Specially Taken For The Sphere MONTMAR1RE TO BE Madame C accompanied by her husband and sister-in-law, arrive at I indpd cuArtpn I iriHT^ cabaret Le Caveau Caucasien, which is kept by White Russians. Below is Jean Duranton, the greengrocer, one of the characters of Montmartre, who sets out his fruit and ...

... THE LONDON CLUB How long? An Ex cursion into Clubland's Secretarial Offices Reveals Many Secrets Hidden Behind Stately Doors YET again I read of a great London social club appealing for new members and support in order to keep going. In pre-war days that would have been so undignified as to be an impossibility. The members would have been horrified at the bare mention of such publicity, and ...

... ART of fhe WEEK There is a certain excitement and romance about Egypt that attracts the majority of us even in normal times, and Mrs. Winifred Brunton, who herself lives in Cairo, has succeeded in re-incarnating at least some of this elusive glamour of the past in her colourful miniatures and water- colour paintings of Egypt and Egyptians. Mrs. Winifred Brunton, who has been a member of the ...