... HOW STALIN STANDS TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY Religious Freedom Under the Soviets and Freedom for Anti-Religious Propaganda the Concessions which have been Made Towards Religion in Russia Since the Frankly Anti-Church Attitude of the Founders of Present-day Communism Described by FERDINAND TUOHY VATICAN broadcasts in which the Nazis are branded as the enemy of Christianity; ad missions by high ...

... I'm a sort of godmother to savings groups says Mrs. Venning, of Crouch House, Rickmansworth, Herts. TOOK on the organisation of War Savings Groups for J[ the town nearly three years ago Mrs. Venning, busy wife of a Rickmansworth doctor, is crisp and confident in telling of her splendid work for National Savings. It's gone like clockwork no half the doors I go to, I walk squabbles, steadily ...

... f -A The quality of Corundite plugs is predetermined by numerous tests in the K.l.G. Optical. Physical and Chemical laboratories, and no expense is spared to make them perfect. In spite of this they are still to be bought at the pre-War price. Your local garage may have some in stock now-- it's worth trying, for they will make a your engine if you can get a set. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 142 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Our Centenarian Con temporary.-- It is only on his hundredth birthday that a man in sists on his age. On every other day of his middle or old age a man is as old as he feels. And as with men, so with journals. The Illustrated Lon don News claimed on May 14, 1942, to be a centenarian. But on May 15 it felt (as usual) a mere boy. So long as ...

... THE HOME GUARD'S SECOND BIRTHDAY The Premier's Visit to the R.A.F. THE HOME GUARD IS NOW TWO YEARS OLD A conference at Headquarters held by Lord Bridgeman, Director-General, with his Staff, and attended by Staff Officers from various Home Guard Commands throughout the country In this picture are seen the following officers and officials from left to right facing the camera Colonel G. F, ...

... CONDEMNED TO IMPRISONMENT DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION, these French citizens must suffer in silence until the day of Liberation comes Numerous French patriots are suffering imprisonment in concentration camps in France. Described by the Germans as Communists or Jews, they are nearly all men who are alleged to have taken part in underground activities against their enemies, such as sabotage ...

... MALTA George Cross Island of an Heroic People, which has Already Endured Well Over 2.000 Bombing Attacks IT is difficult for us who knew Malta in its light-hearted days to picture it in its new role of a beleaguered fortress, at present the most bombed in the world. Pre-war Malta, for all its consciousness of surrounding unease (in 1933 trenches dug along the front for gas-pipes were ...

... AIR MARSHAL MONSOON-A New Strategist in the Japanese War in the Bay of Bengal THERE are two main sets of monsoons, although the range is diversified by several subsidiary currents. Blowing roughly from May to October in a north-easterly direction are those north of the Equator; blowing approximately from October to March in a south-westerly direction are those south of the Line. How are the ...

... Described and illustrated by Wm. McDowell DEEP diving (so called to distinguish it from diving in aquatic sport) has been attempted for many centuries. Aristotle, in the fourth century B.C., refers to divers, employed in warfare, who used a tube held in the mouth with the upper end supported on a float; he also speaks of an apparatus which is obviously some form of diving-bell. Kylser, a ...

... A Note by Francis McMurtrie WHEN the last war closed, anti-aircraft gunnery was in its infancy, and the heaviest anti-aircraft piece in general use afloat was a 3-in. semi automatic. A 4-in. weapon was being introduced, the first of H.M. ships to carry it being the aircraft-carrier Argus, completed in September 1918. At first she was given only two of these, mounted singly on either side ...

... The DEFENCE of AUSTRALIA New Guinea Stands up to the Japs and Frustrates the Attacks on Port Moresby NEW GUINEA is a key point much desired by Japan. Once fully in her possession she would com mand the Torres Strait, and would be within easy flying distance pf the north of Australia. The fringe of outer islands, regarded by Australia as her bulwark against in vasion, have been falling to ...

... ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVAL CO-OPERATION Admiral Stark and his Staff at the Admiralty Admiral btark, ot the U.b. Navy, is the Commander of his country's Naval Forces in Europe accompanied by Mr. J. G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador in London, and by members of the U.S. staff, he visited the Admiralty recently. It was an historic occasion, being the first gathering of its kind at the Admiralty since the days ...