... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 143 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A New Note of Confi dence.-- Usually When changes of opinion alter our view of war, those changes filter into our consciousness from a hundred sources, and very gradually. They are more like links in a chain of circumstantial evidence than a single and damning piece of direct evidence. But not always, the collapse ol f ranee was a single ...

... TRANSITION DAYS IN FRANCE'S EMPIRE Second Largest in the World, the French Colonial Empire is Now Being Thoroughly Shaken Up Owing to the Vichy Policy of Collaboration with the Germans By FERDINAND TUOHY PERHAPS it is as well that not more than two or three millions at most of the 60,000,000 populating the French Colonial Empire, the second largest in the world, are sitting up and taking ...

... CHAMPION SPARKING PLUGS Giving them all a lift is fine, but ever think about that overloaded engine Champion Plugs, with their Sillment Sealing, prevent gas-escape, increase power, give your engine better pull, easier running, smoother acceleration, reduce petrol and oil consumption. With petrol prices on the up-and-up, they're all asking the same thing how to get the utmost from their ration. ...

... THE VICTOR OF TARANTO AND MATAPAN BACK IN LONDON Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, fifty-nine years of age, Commander- in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet since June 1939, is shortly to go to Washington as head of the British Admiralty delegation in succession to Admiral Sir Charles Little he is now in London, where this picture (with Captain Dick, R.N., on right) was taken a few days ago. ...

... A GLANCE BACK at MALAYA and BURMA The Latest Views to Reach Britain of These Two Campaigns THE CHINESE TROOPS WHICH CAME TO OUR AID IN BURMA A patrol, led by a standard-bearer, setting out in the Tounggoo sector a picture taken by a British Newsreel operator during the campaign AT CHINESE ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS Lieut.-General H. Alexander, G.O.C. in Burma General Sir Archibald Wavell, in ...

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... THE BRITAIN WE FIGHT FOR AN ENGLISH FARMSTEAD IN THE CHILTERNS NEAR WEST WYCOMBE, a quiet country scene which typifies for most of us the land we hold so dear When a member of the English-speaking peoples thinks of the Homeland, it is not castles or mansions which his mind conjures up, but the memory of quiet scenes such as those above and on the right. In farmsteads and villages like these ...

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... STRIKING POWER: A NEW PICTURE WHICH GIVES AN IDEA OF THE SIZE OF THE HUGE FOUR-ENGINED STIRLING BOMBERS OF THE R.A.F. which are now forming the spearhead of our bombing offensive of Germany by night If I could send 1,000 bombers to Germany every night, it would end the war by the autumn, said Air Marshal A. T. Harris, Chief of Bomber Command, a few days ago. If I could send 20,000 bombers to ...

... HOW A CAPITAL SHIP OF TO-DAY IS DESIGNED Detail Section-drawings Showing the Factors which Govern the Con struction of a Big Modern Warship THE new 35,000-ton battleships of the United Stated Navy are North Carolina, Washing ton, Indiana, Massachu setts, Alabama and North Dakota: two of them were launched as far back as June 1940, so that it is not unlikely that they have been fully completed ...

... Their MORALE is EXCELLENT-and no WONDER The Work of U.S.O. Camp Shows Inc., which Controls the Enter tainment for the American Forces in All Fields This Article Describes the Steps Taken to Elevate Morale and Gives Relevant Facts and Figures By CHARLES GRAVES IT is always easy to profit by other people's mis takes, and the early tribulations of Ensa enabled the Americans to secure a flying ...