... M. Erkko Finland's Foreign Minister, who has born the brunt of the long- drawn-out, typically Krcmlinesque negotiations between Helsinki and Moscow, is a large man of forty-four. He has reached his present position in the remarkably short time of seventeen years, for he did not pass his law finals from Helsinki University until he was twenty-seven. But he never practised, went straight into ...

... Evacuees in Dungarees Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra Photographs of children are good, photographs of Royal children are better, pictures of the little Kents are always irresistible. Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, like some hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries, are in the country 44 somewhere in England, They posed happily for their first war photographs in the cleanest ...

... ' vj So say the Br iys C. R. W. Nevinson, who was official war artist to iritisli and Canadian Governments twenty-two years ago Tn the last war, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson became an official war artist in 1917, and considers that round about that time we had the finest propaganda machine the world has ever seen because it contained the best literary and artistic brains in the country. ...

... The Hon. Dorothy Berry Dorothy Berry is engaged to Dennis Douglas Pilkington Smyly, younger son of the late Major and Mrs. R. J. Smyly, of Sweethay Court, Trull. She is the third of the five daughters of the late Lord Buckland brother of Lord Camrose and Lord Kemsley) and Lady Buckland, of Woolton House, Newbury, Berks. Her fiance s brother married Diana Mills in July Harlip Miss Cordelia Mary ...

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... The Lady Lavinia Rogerson This going- away snapshot was taken after Lady Lavinia Dundas very quiet wedding to Captain John Creagh Rogerson, late 15th Hussars, at Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Square. She is the second of the three daughters of the Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland, of Aske, Richmond, Yorks, is twenty- four this year. Her younger sister, now Lady Jean Christie, married ...

... Women's Golf By Eleanor E. Helme Going West GO west for peace. This is no incitement to felo de se, nor am I qualifying as advertisement writer to the Great Western Railway. Only, on a tempting in vitation and my last drop of petrol have I coasted-- as far as possible-- down to the Westward Ho! neighbourhood and actually had a round over the Royal North Devon links. The experience made war ...

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... Mr. Anthony Eden and Sir Eric Pliipps gave each other the warmest possible greeting when they met somewhere in M hitehall the day after the British ex- Ambassador to Paris arrived home. I hey last met oflicially in June, when Mr. Eden went to Paris and lectured at the Salle des Ambas- sadeurs on the state of Europe in 1939. Sir Eric Phipps had a tremendous send-off in Paris, where his two-and ...

... By A. G. Macdonell THERE are all kinds of rumours about the flooding of the Siegfried Line owing to the heavy rains and the flooding of the smaller rivers between the Rhine and the Moselle. It is possible that a good many of these rumours are only partially true, but it is only natural that bad weather should hit the German West Wall much harder than the Maginot Line. The latter has been in ...

... The Hon. William Buchan and Miss Nesta Crozier William de V Argle Buchan second son of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, and Nesta Crozier only daughter of Lieut.-Col. and Airs. C. D. Crozier of Home Farm Culham Abingdon were married at Elsfield, Oxon., with a reception at Elsfield Alanor, the Tweedsmuirs' Oxfordshire home where Lady Tiveedsmuir's mother, the Hon. Airs. Norman Grosvenor, is now living ...

... npi t\ t Entertaining the Army, Knitting XllCclllC 1NCWS for t]ic j\aVy, and Young Ladies Douglas Byng as the Mayoress They Rode to Banbury Cross A distinguished company of entertainers went down to the School Hall at Banbury to entertain men of the at any rate, men. Douglas Byng whose Flora MacDonald and Landlady and Mayoress (left) took new leases of life, and Bea Lillie, here in her striped ...