... What Will America Do PaPer Cartoon by Bruce Angrave A few hours before it was iftmounced that French troops had been withdrawn on each side of Paris, the French Premier made a new and final appeal to the President of the United States. He asked, above all, for 44 clouds of aeroplanes. This was just three days after Mr. Roosevelt had delivered his great speech at the University of Virginia, in ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell PARIS has fallen, but Paris can never die. She will rise, as she has always risen, greater and more triumphant than ever. If we are to hold fast to the faith, as we must hold fast and as we do hold fast, that there is a reason for the existence of the universe, then we must know that Paris can never die. She is the centre, the ...

... English Thriller American Romance Diana Wynyard and Ginger Rogers in Two New Films I 44 Gaslight I 44 Primrose Path Father and husband of Ginger Rogers are Homer (Miles Mander once a scholar, now a drunkard, and Ed (Joel McCrea), who runs a petrol station and snack-bar where Ginger goes to ivork before she marries the boss Primrose Path has a low-life setting in an American coastal city. The ...

... Bystander's Review of Weddings Lyall Elliot Major John Lyall R.A., son of the late Claude Lyall, and Mrs. Lyall, of the Hurst Headley Surrey, was married at Chelsea Old Church to Noreen Elliot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Elliot, of 5, Grosvtnor Place, S.W.i Ommanney Stewart Sub-Lt. Cecil John M. Ommanney, R.N.V.R., of 3, Sloane Court, S.W., was married at Chelsea Old Church to Catherine ...

... Squadron-Leader the Rev. K. 7 Jenkins, the Cambridge and Welsh sprinter, was married at St. Michael' s- at-the-Norlh Gate, Oxford, to Joy C. Towell, of Teddington. Lieut. F. R. Webster, R.A., and Beryl Otley were married at Taunton, Somerset. Webster, undisputed pole- vaulting champion of this country, holds English, Army and Inter-Services records. Henry Davies Hicks, acting-president of the ...

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... A VANTAGE POINT was the Devil's Dyke, built by Roman or Saxon military defenders. ON THE COURSE the bookmakers were early astir to take up their pitches. THE ENDLESS CYCLE RUCK. THE TREK TO THE COURSE went on all the morning by bus, car, bicycle and Shanks's pony. LONG BEFORE RACING BEGAN the popular stands looked full to those who D preferred a picnic lunch on the Devil's Dyke and a pretty ...

... Sweel Memories of Devon We got up early and walked across Exmoor and were fortunate enough to see a magnificent specimen of the wild red deer which roam the forests and moors of this romantic part of Devon. The Whiteway Cyder apple orchards at Whimple, which are the largest in the wotld, wete in full blossom and were a magnificent sight. We all loved the little white pigs, which skipped about ...

... CUT OFF ON THE SOMME The Story of a Gallant British Infantry Regiment and Their Adventures AFTER THEIR RETREAT HAD BEEN CUT OFF-- SHIFTING TO A NEW POSITION BEHIND THE ENEMY'S ADVANCE LINE: THE REGIMENT MOVING ABOUT j THE COUNTRY IN LORRIES AND WITH ALL THEIR EQUIPMENT INTACT t' IN HOSTILE TERRITORY-- A HALT BY THE WAYSIDE WHILST SCOUTS ARE SENT OUT TO GATHER NEWS OF THE ENEMY'S WHEREABOUTS ...

... mi- -THE ENEMY OF HITLER I I An Analysis of the World's Sources of Supply By J. WENTWORTH DAY OIL will win this war-- petrol and lubricants. Oil is the god of the machine in a war of machines. It turns the wheels and drives the propellers of tanks, guns, ships, lorries, submarines, aeroplanes, and motor vehicles. It is the life-blood of armies, navies, and air forces. Without it they are sunk. ...

... SHOOTING DOWN THE ENEMY'S AIRCRAFT With Special Notes on the Germans' Coastal Craft; and on the New British Boulton Paul Defiant- -By Charles G. Grey (Founder of The Aeroplane) WHEN aeroplanes came into the King's Fighting Services there were those of us who believed that they would dispel the fog of war. But in spite of the air being filled with the thunder of aero-motors the war news seems ...

... The GERMAN ONSLAUGHT on the WEYGAND LINE Where the First Enemy Attack Began on June 5 FRENCH ACTIVITY IN THE DEEP BATTLE ZONE OF THE WEYGAND LINE Everywhere behind the immediate contact positions, French troops have been occupying points where the enemy pressure indicated an early attack. The wooded nature of much of the country facilitated the secret moving of these troops. At the beginning ...