... By Foresight Pacific News THERE'S a Dunkirk determination about the reactions of people in all places to the daily repetition of bad news from the Pacific. Events there grow so grave that even the ready recriminations of politicians have died away for the time. The siege of Singapore is watched with a calm which shields but does not deny deep anxiety. As in the case of Hong Kong, water ...

... rr,cS By James Agate Technicolor Tease A LYRICAL caption describing an isolated island in the Bahamas, at the beginning of Bahama Passage, at the Plaza, rather flabbergastingly concludes with the sentence: What happens when into this loneliness and repression swaggers a girl who has been around? The answer is, of course, nothing whatever, until exactly an hour and a half after the question ...

... Diplomacy at Work The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., at the Foreign Office As Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ince 1938, Sir Alexander Cadogan has played an important part in all decisions affecting British foreign policy in recent ears. In 1933 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Sinister Plenipotentiary, and later Ambassador, at Pekin, nd succeeded ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Slack Book I HAVE to hand, this week, one of the most massive, impassive and detailed indict ments of Nazi Germany that have so far appeared. The German New Order in Poland (published for the Polish Ministry of In formation by Hutchinson; IOS. 6d.) has been compiled from carefully sifted evi dence; if anything, it is an understatement, for it confines itself to facts that ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Boddam-Whetham Lane Captain John Hayes Boddam-Whetham Queen's Westminsters, K.R.R.C. only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Boddam-Whetham, of 37, Crompton Court, S.H'., and Joan Margaret Lane, younger daughter of Major- General and Mrs. C. R. C. Lane, of Poona, Itidia, were married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Felicity Par doe Felicity ...

... ^4 By Sabretache iVoI Me, Sir! EVEN the most unobservant of us must have noticed that the man who is himself in an advanced stage of alcoholic poisoning always asserts that it is everyone else around and about him who is suffering from staggering inebriety. Von Hitler has assured the world that he never touches anything, and that, furthermore, he never gabbles, never steals, never lies, and ...

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... Lady Patricia llihherl is tin* only sister of Major the Marl of Ineheape. who succeeded his father in 1939. In 1938 she married Major Washington Hugh Hibbert of the (Queen's Hays, a nephew of Sir .lames Hope Nelson. Lady Patricia is doing her war work as a driver in the F.A.N.Y.s, She has a half-brother, the Hon. Simon Brooke Maekay, and a half-sister, Lady Rosemary Mackav, children of her ...

... Captains of the Clouds James Capney in a Film Tribute to The Royal Canadian Air Force Captains of the Clouds a Technicolor film directed bv Michael Curtiz, which will be presented by arners in London, New York and Ottawa simultaneously on February 12, is dedicated to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and particularly to those in the Service known as the Bush Pilots. These last are the men who fly ...

... Practice Makes Perfect. Celia Lipton, 18-Year-01d Star of Get a Load of This, at the London Hippodrome Celia Lipton is the 18-year-old daughter of dance-band leader Sidney Lipton. She first broad cast with her father's band at the age of 15. Later, her bril liant impersonation on the air of Judy Garland in the radio version of Strike Up the Band led to her first great chance when she took ...

... President Roosevelt s Birthday Celebrated in London An afternoon party in honour of President Roosevelt's sixtieth birthday teas held at Grosvenor House for representatives of the twenty-six nations which signed the Declaration of Solidarity in Washington last month. Admiral Sir Edward Evans presided. He is seen on the right, while his wife. Lady Evans, cuts the birtlulay cake. Between them ...