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... What Happens in the Room in the Heart of the Empire where Dramatic Decisions are made By Emrys Jones WITHIN a few months of the outbreak of war I was sitting in the room of a Cabinet Minister in the House of Commons, a man I knew well enough to ask what happened at the last Cabinet meeting held before the fateful eleven o'clock on the morning of September 3, 1939. Of course I knew he would not ...

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... Wttorrjim Some Barometer Predictions and W e a t h e r Proverbs By Alan Hess THESE days and nights-- when our very lives may depend upon the state of the weather from hour to hour, some rough guide to the weather- wisdom of our ancestors would seem to be opportune. If we are to believe the testimony of our grandparents, our breakfast coffee provides a reliable barometer, for they maintained ...

... Books.- 1 Reviewed by r Noel Thompson LET us start off this month with a book which is surely going to be a winner, The Thin Blue Line (Hutchinson, 5s.) by Charles Graves. It does not matter what Charles Graves writes about, you will always learn something new, and this book, his first in novel form, is no exception. He has taken seven young men who joined the R.A.F. in October, 1939 as his ...

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