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... SN I -- SMOULDERING discontents and misgivings-- only talk at present-- carry in embryo a cumulative grievance. This is dangerous. A number of men in the R.A.F. are mighty sore-- to use their adjective but not their adverb. (Did any service in any age swear with such consummate innocence?) It boils up to this. Before the war A.B. and C. had retired from the R.A.F. and were no longer on the ...

... TRAINING THE CIVILIAN In First Aid and Home Nursing At Lady Louis Mountbatten's Training Centre at Eaton Place With Lady Louis Mountbattcn (left) are, amongst others, Mrs. Frieze, Mrs. Evans, Miss Hutchings, Miss Birch, Miss de Zouche, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. MacNaughton, Mrs. Gardner and Nurse Royle Some Practical Demonstration On the right Mrs. Gardner is attending to Mrs. Wilkinson's ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By PETER TRAILL Mr. Peter Traill is deputising for Mr. Richard King, who will be resuming his article With Silent Friends next week, August 28. A Fine Novel IT is some little time since Mr. Myers produced The Root and the Flower, the beauty and wisdom of which made such a deep impression upon those who read it with understanding. For the benefit of those who have not read ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. McMINNIES Roads, asset or hindrance? WITH the ever-present threat of invasion upon us, one naturally wonders what part our road system will play in the matter of attack and defence. No one knows in what part of the country the enemy may attempt to land and for that reason the kind of roads that will be used in the initial encounters. They may, of course, be of the twin ...

... SOCIAL ROUND-ABOUT The Tatler in Town and Country By BRIDGET CHETWYND The Ship of State THE above always sounds important, picturesque and familiar, and presumably applies to the House of Commons, where the dining-room offers a National menu as an alternative to the ordinary one. It reads like a complete tour of the kitchen garden, including Herb Corner two tightly printed lines of carrots, ...

... TWO OF THE PREMIER'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ONE AN ACTRESS, THE OTHER A CHARMING DEBUTANTE Miss Sarah Churchill, in private life Mrs. Vic Oliver, takes her name from the p Prime Minister's great ancestor was winning his brightest bays in the ne o able name for herself on the stage, and her most recent activity is in t bill with her husband in the opening programme of the new C. B. Cochran rai of ...

... June Yorkshire Bride Mrs. Speir was married in June at Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire, to Mr. Michael Speir, second son of Col. and Mrs. Guy Speir, of The Abbey, North Berwick. He is a consulting engineer with the firm of Sir Alex ander Gibb and Partners, engaged on important war work. Mrs. Speir was formerly Miss Mary Baker- Baker, elder daughter of the late Mr. John Baker- Baker, and Mrs. Baker ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING Chinese Scene ALL around me there creeps stealthily from the horizon the impenetrable mystery of night. How calm it all is! How almost impossible it is to imagine that, maybe within a few hours, most of us may be taking shelter from the danger of falling bombs. The countryside which but a year ago looked as if nothing would ever disturb its quiet loveliness ...

... p Manhattan's famous 54th Street rendezvous, El Morocco, is always a magnet for notable visitors to New York who want to see the city at its gayest, and a photographic tour of its banquettes one night recently brought out a great gathering of international celebs. The ex-First Lord, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, is at present making a lecture-tour of the States, putting forward a British view of ...

... BACK TO THE SEA AGAIN This page having to do with that Silent Service which has been making a dashed sight more noise than any Raeder likes, a Trappist ought to be told off to do the explanation stuff. However, there is no harm in mentioning that this Admiral has his H.Q. somewhere and that almost all his staff is com posed of officers who rejoined immediately on the outbreak, no matter what ...

... The idea that certain gentlemen in Berlin or even our own more Dora-minded statesmen could put the damper on the West End's night life has been pretty quickly and effec tively scotched and all quarters report a ratding good Christmas and New Year festivity, and plenty of good champagne was drunk without the encouragement of Herr von Tovarich Ribbentrop. Highlights at the Cafe de Paris, always ...