... -- when Christianity was really true, when peace, year after year, was upon these country places, and when the simple manner of life, its true aim and purport had not as yet been put aside. Llewellyn Davis. THE peace drive has come mainly from the extreme Left; from those communis tic intellectuals who, by spreading propaganda in the schools and by fanning bureaucratic extray agance, are ...

... WARTIME h la CARTE By j4LAN &OTT STUDY OF A NASTY NAZI THESE past few weeks are the last for many months when Adolf Hitler will have been able to keep the world taut with suspense while he pro nounces on this and that. There were twenty earlier occasions when the mere news that the peculiar fellow was to harangue his fol lowers, in the puppet Reichstag or wherever else, had cut across ...

... Most welcome to our shores at this moment have been the members of the Turkish Military Mission under General Kiazim Orbay. They were welcomed to this country two weeks ago by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, whose imposing military record includes command of the Anzacs at Gallipoli. Among the many functions which have been interspersed with the official conversations General Orbay generally ...

... Ellen Drew in 44 French Without Tears This glamorous satiny creature is the girl chosen to translate into screen terms Kay Hammond's inimitable, delicious, wicked performance in the longest running comedy of recent years. Terence Rattigan sold the film rights of French Without Tears to Paramount, and they set David E. Rose to produce it in England, with Anthony Asquith as director, and sent ...

... A Chelsea Nurse The Hon. Pamela Stanley (left) is working at the Chelsea A.R.P. post, of which her sister the Hon. Mrs. Maurice Lubbock, I is commandant. She ivas the Queen Victoria of the English stage was acting in Romeo and Juliet at the Perth Festival when war broke out Lady Castlerosse and Sir Anthony Lindsay Hogg (right) were in the audience at the Odeon when Nurse CaveU had its premiere ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell IT seems likely that on the Western Front the French troops will soon be withdrawn almost entirely from their advance posts on German soil. It was obviously never their intention to remain in temporary entrenchments out in No-Man's-Land on the approach of winter. If they retire to the Maginot Line, it will then be for the Germans ...

... Life in Finland (II.) the Landowner Baron Ernst von Born at Home Not far from Tuomisto's smallholding near Laitila is Sarvlax, the estate of Baron Ernst von Born. This nobleman is one of his country's twelve richest, yet his estate is only twenty-three times as great as the Tuomisto holding. The Sarvlax estate is 5,500 acres, employs 35 labourers (but little machinery), is partly forest and ...

... In an oatfield Baron von Born talks to one of his 35 Finnish labourers who wields a primitive scythe and wears Russian boots. On the arable at Sarvlax a simple system of alternate husbandry is practised, the land produc ing, in rotation with seeds and fallow, one-third wheat, one-third rye, one-third oats In the lake Baroness Silfvershjelm sets her baskets for crayfish. She is a young Helsinki ...

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... THE FIELD NEARING THE FINISH Here Flying Cloud III. (No. 27), in the centre of the picture, leads the 27 runners. No. g on the right is Azam Pasha, No. 33 is King Henry. Behind Flying Cloud III. is T. Lowrey, in Mr. J. S. Norton's cerise ant white diamond colours, riding Never Surprised which finished third. Nearest the camera on the left is Eran Bird; Dark Tolly, Roderick Dhu and Quartier ...

... rhe Cambridgeshire Class I There was a good field for the Class I. race, Meadow being the favourite at 10 to Coming to the dip Olein, drawn on the far side from the stands (nearest the camera) was well placed with Gyroscope in the middle of the course. Meadow was most prominent on the stands side and going easily. Suddenly Olein was heaten and Meadow failed to go on, leaving Gyroscope, No. 34, ...

... THE CROWD ALONG THE RAILS: Though favourites fared badly, the crowd were delighted to be racing again. A few soldiers and sailors were to be seen and a few gentlemen in statu pupillari, over from Cambridge in search of knowledge. AS USUAL STEEL HELMET: Prince Ras Monolulu is mighty glad to be racing again. Winners proved hard to find despite the tipsters. NO TOTE COMPETITION Bookmakers turned ...