... 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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... f COW^ J ,-V 4 W ENQUIRIES TO: NICOLL CLOTHES MIDDLESEX HOUSE CLEVELAND STREET LONDON. W.I A GENTS Nicolls of Regent St 120 REGENT ST.. LONDON. W.I REG. 1951 0^ A MOTHER-TO- BE, and she looks her prettiest! All yT D U BARRY r MODELS are de- signed on a paten- I ted principle. (Patent No. 2811) which makes them com- ortable and concealing, '.ome and try on some if the really smart styles ir ...

... THE CAPTAIN OF BRITAIN'S LATEST CAPITAL SHIP: CAPTAIN C. H. J. HARCOURT, O.B.E., R.N., ON THE BRIDGE OF THE BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK, NEWEST VESSEL OF THE ROYAL NAVY TO JOIN THE FLEET The importance of the Capital Ship in maintaining supremacy of the seas is, by this time, well known to all if only through the unhappy sequence of events in the Far East brought about by the loss of the Prince ...

... THE CAMPAIGN OF THE RED ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT THE RECAPTURE OF MOJAISK By the Russians AFTER an anxious period of three months, when the Germans stood in front of Moscow at Mojaisk on the big motor highway from Smolensk, the town was once again brought into Russian hands towards the end of January. Its occupation was then secure enough to admit of visits by War Corre spondents to the ...

... A NOTE ON THE LOSS OF THE BARHAM. By FRANCIS McMURTRIE FROM Press accounts of the torpedoing of H.M.S. Barham off the Libyan coast on November 25, it appears that she was one of a squadron of three battleships steaming in the formation known as line ahead, i.e., in a single column, one ship following another. Normally, ships proceeding in this formation preserve a distance of from 2½ to 3 ...

... -- BY GARY COOPER. GARY COOPER (right) gives a remarkable demonstration of how to knock yourself out in one easy lesson, as One-Punch Potts, professor hero of Samuel Goldwyui's new picture, 44 Ball of Fire. The professor has never studied fisticuffs but 44 mugs-up the subject from a book while on his way to fight Gangster Joe Lilac (DANA ANDREWS). The fight does not develop according to ...