... THE FIRST THIRD-TERM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: MR. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TAKES THE OATH On Monday last, at the Capitol in Washington, Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the Oath of Office as President of the United States for the third time thus making world history, for never before has one man guided the destinies of the great American nation for such a long period. Always an event of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-- No. 73 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE PLAIN.-- Mr. Roosevelt in his first address to Congress can have left no further room for doubt in any mind (even the Nazi mind) as to what is in his heart on the burning question of the hour. I have read verbatim reports of his chief speeches, on the subject of aid to the democracies, addressed to the world, to the ...

... THUNDERBOLT (formerly Thetis) Returns Home Tn June 1939 H.M.S. Thunderbolt L was known as the Thetis. She had been launched in 1938 and was completed a year later built at a cost of £350,000, she belonged to the Triton class she had a displacement of 1 ,500 tons and carried a complement of 53. In June 1939, Thetis was carrying out trials in Liverpool Bay when she failed to surface after a ...

... ITALY'S DEFEATS in the AIR The Poor Showing of the Regia Aeronautica Against the R.A.F. in the Italian Zones of War ONE of the most extraordinary happen ings of this far-from-ordinary war has been the utter failure of the much vaunted Regia Aeronautica. In each and every encounter with the Royal Air Force the Italians have been soundly beaten. They have failed not only in all their attempted ...

... The Campaign in the Western Desert ITALY ON THE DEFENSIVE-IV THE WIDE SWEEP OF SOLLUM BAY AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY GENERAL WAVELL'S ARMY After the fall of Sidi Barrani, and in the general onward sweep to Bardia and Tobruk, it was inevitable that Solium should fall into British hands. Although it was used by the Italians for shipping and for naval purposes, it is likely that Bardia with its much ...

... THIS IS WHAT EVACUATION MEANS TO LONDONERS CHILDREN FROM BLACKFRIARS, ESCORTED BY THEIR TEACHER, MRS. DOBBS, OUT FOR A WALK IN THE DORSETSHIRE VILLAGE WHICH IS NOW THEIR HOME MRS. VINCENT, THE BABIES' TEACHER, SUPERVISING A CLASS The conditions under which children evacuated from danger areas now live in a Dorsetshire village are illustrated in these two pictures. The children come from ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 71 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 TO 1941.-- The last few years have proved so terrible in their events and implications, that every year's end, when I attempted a review of events in the past twelve months, I finished with a prophecy that the coming year at least could not be more deeply invested with tragedy and doom for civilisation. At the end of 1940 I found I could ...

... The MEN who are BEATING the ITALIANS Australians with their Tank in the Western Desert ani Our Allies fromWest and Ens MAJOR-GENERAL IVEN GIFFARD MACKAY, who commands the Australians who captured Bardia. He was formerly a schoolmaster INDIANS IN THE WESTERN DESERT Men of a Bren-gun carrier platoon of an Indian Rifle Regiment. These troops have adapted themselves remarkably well to ...

... 44 AERIAL WARFARE of TWO KINDS-in NORWAY and GREECE i .I. I, v iTHE DIVE-BOMBER STILL WATCHES OVER THE NORWAY COAST, AND HARASSES THE ENEMY'S TRANSPORT- -Drawing by Roland Davies The Germans are not being allowed to take things easy in Norway. Despite that Allied troops are no longer operating in these regions, the Fleet Air Arm are still carrying out reconnaissances there and hindering the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 70 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 CHRISTMAS ARMISTICE. --I felt certain there would be a Christmas armistice from night bomb ing in the west-- whatever the leaders said or did not say. There was. As at Christmas 1914 in the trenches of France and Flanders, so at Christmas 1940, over the ravaged cities of Britain and Germany, there was no death in the air during two or ...

... FIRST PICTURES from the WESTERN DESERT Some of the Many Thousands of Prisoners and Stores of Italian War Material Captured Before Sidi Barrani HUNDREDS OP ITALIAN PRISONERS BEING ONLY TNE BRITISH SOLDIER WAS ,t TH£ nuhE S,DI r wawTs iiT^Rjs'isrjsr, back t° e (Jne of Hie most vivid episodes of the war has been the wonderful advance of British forces in the Western Desert. Masses of war ...

... THI BLOCKADE OF ITALY'S EAST AFRICAN POSSESSIONS Where the Kenya Forces are now Closing the Frontiers to the South THIS sparsely populated and little-known Frontier Province of Kenya can offer nothing to attract travellers or planters. Except for a few isolated military posts to ensure frontier protection and prevent raids by cattle thieves, there are few signs of civilisation. Rains are so ...