... One Year After By Pamela Murray THIS is an anniversary letter. When I first wrote from Saratoga our particular shipload of mothers and children had docked at Halifax only a week or two before. The sinking of the Benares with the loss of hundreds of children's lives was making tragic headlines; the Battle of Britain had begun; America seemed to me to be fully awake, anxious of course, and ...

... A Politician at Home Lord and Lady Addison in Buckinghamshire Lord Addison, Chairman of the Agricultural War Executive Committee, and Lady Addison, live in Bucks. Their white, tiled house, Neighbours, at Radnage, was only completed recently. Lady Addison takes a personal interest in the Radnage village war effort, and is president of the Women's Institute, whose knitting party have provided ...

... Design for Fighting By Oliver Stewart TWO things, one recent and one remote, will remain in my mind as vivid proofs of the innate and unchanging barbarity of the English people. The first I noticed when I began, only a few weeks ago, to travel by train. In the past I have travelled by motor car or aeroplane, because these vehicles provide a more civilised and more individual form of travel. ...

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... General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Mrs. Furlong, widow of Brigadier Dennis Furlong, were married on Wednesday last week, l)y the Chaplain-General to the Forces, at St. Stephen's, Rochester Row. Lady Dill was formerly Miss Nancy Charriugton, only child of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Charrington, of Castlemaine, Twyford, Berks, and Cliff House, Sandgate, Kent. Her ...

... By Foresight Bevin Says No BY superbly organised political campaign- ing the Oxford Group have brought a grievance before Parliament. They insist that eleven of their evangelists have the right of automatic exemption from military service like the officials of other religious denomina- tions. They got 170 Members of Parliament to support them. Never was so much lobbying done among so many by ...

... Diplomatic Stitchers at Seaford House At Seaford House Belgrave Square formerly Lord Hoivard de Walden's London home there is a W.V.S. Hospital Supplies depot of which Lady Colefax is chairman. Here are nine of the regular workers there most of them the wives of diplomats Mme. Moniz de Aragao, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador Mme. Dumitrescu ivife of the former Roumanian Military and Naval ...

... Daisy Kennedy Violinist and Band-Leader When John Drinkwater, poet and dramatist, died in 1937, his widow, Daisy Kennedy, the well-known Australian violinist, found herself with an eight-year-old daughter to support and educate, and a home to keep together for little Penelope and the two daughters of her first marriage to the pianist, Benno Moiseiwitsch. To do this, she gave up the career of ...

... -/4 By Sabretache A Head Line from Burma My old friend M.B.R.A., who, like most Mountain Gunners, has seen service in so many wild and out-of- the-way spots, sends me the following letter, which is of more than usual interest in view of all the jabber about Japanese intentions to attack India viá Thailand and Burma and the bloodthirsty Colonel Mabuchi's threat. The letter also contains a ...

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... Opera on Tour Scenes from the Sadler's Wells Repertoire Photographs by T unbridge-Sedgwick rS--s**- flS f- r> lS ..mire, FIGARO Susanna is Joan Collier also sometimes Janet Hamilton- Smith) Cherubino is Rose Morris, and the Countess is Joan Cross. Tyrone -Guthrie is responsible for the neiv, small-scale production of 44 The Marriage °f Figaro which has John Hargreaves as Figaro, Sumner ...