... THE U.S. COASTGUARD TO THE RESCUE The survivors of a freighter torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast wave happily as a surf-boat from a coastguard station approaches to take them to safety. Whilst the freighter crew was taken ashore, however, a submarine-chaser was speeding over the adjacent waters in search of the U-boat, as well as to inform coastal points and to ...

... S Once Again to the Forefront of World Politics, Owing to the Attempted Civil Disobedience Plan of the Congress Party A special Sphere section P>o the Congress Party and Mr. Gandhi represent the voice of India asked Mr. Amery, Secretary for India, during his recent broadcast on Indian affairs. It is true that Congress habitually speaks and acts as if that were the case, but it certainly is ...

... INDIA-- A WORLD QUESTION MARK The Forces Operating For and Against the Congress Party By PETER LISCOMB BIGGEST question-mark at the moment, on a world-map dotted with question-marks, is India. What will be the effect of the Congress resolution? How much of India does Congress represent? Will civil disobedience disrupt our military preparations and war production in India? Will Japan invade ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. A NEW series of notes starts in this issue of THE SPHERE upon this page. I have filled it since the present war began. Another page, under another alias, I have filled for a much longer time-- 1 hope for not too long a time! I shall not waste much anxiety upon the opening night of this new series. ...

... THE COST OF BOMBING The Losses of Bomber Command During a Nine Months' Offensive 1,082 Aircraft The Secretary for Air has now made known to the House of Commons the number of British bombers lost over Germany and Northern Europe during the nine months ending with September 30. During this period, Bomber Command carried out raids on 79 days and 140 nights the losses incurred were 1,082 aircraft ...

... It was at the beginning of the second week in December that the great change on the Eastern Front began to manifest itself. Successful Russian attacks and advances coincided with the German decision to retreat under the compulsion of the Russian winter and of the accumulated fatigue both of men and material. The Russian commanders began to attack vigorously their armies turned and, being ...

... THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTES UNANIMOUSLY FOR WAR The scene at the Session in which it was unanimously declared that a state of war existed between the United States and Germany and Italy. The vote was 393 to 0 on the German resolution (with one woman Representative from Montana voting Present The President had sent a brief message, which was read by the Clerk. Speaker Sam Rayburn ...

... THE AMERICAN-BUILT GENERAL GRANT TANK, WHOSE GREAT HITTING POWER IN THE LIBYAN DESERT PROVIDED ROMMEL WITH ONE OF HIS BIG SURPRISES. These new vehicles were first engaged in the Battle of Knightsbridge and have been in action ever since It has been publicly stated that in our desert operations of a year ago a large proportion of our tanks became unservice able on the road before ever they ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM COLOGNE Taken by Reconnaissance Aircraft of the R.A.F. T'he attack on Cologne on the night of May 30-31 created history. For the first time in air warfare over 1,000 bombers were sent to the attack of a single objective Cologne. The force despatched included our biggest bombers, and every aircraft participating had been made in Britain. Cologne is (or perhaps one should ...

... THE COASTAL AREA OF THE AMERICAS, WHERE U.S. SHIPPING HAS BEEN THREATENED BY THE U-BOATS The danger-zone has been extended from the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to the Caribbean, and then southwards to the Brazilian coast many hundreds of miles away A NEW MOTHER-SHIP FOR U.S. SUBMARINES An artist's impression of a new-type submarine tender, one of several such vessels now being ...

... A SUB. -BUSTER OF THE U.S. COASTGUARD SERVICE CO-OPERATES WITH A BLIMP In the first four months of the war, it has been estimated that the United States lost 180 merchant vessels. To-day, patrol bombers, blimps and sub.-busters are co-operating to fight the menace of the U-boat. Hundreds of fast. 83-ft. vessels are now being built for the Coastguard Service one such is shown above. They can ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XII By J. G. THOMAS CREEVEY.-- Lytton Strachey, in his Books and Characters, published in 1922, put in a typically light and contemptuous footnote on Thomas Creevey. His information, of course, was all derived from Sir Herbert Maxwell's Creevey Papers,- which had been given to the world (and delighted it) in 1904. Thomas Creevey, a Whig ...