... THE LAST PRESIDENT OF FRANCE before the surrender to the Germans in June 1940 M. Albert Lebrun He became Presi- dent of the Republic in 1932 after a Ministerial career which began in 1911. To-day he Is seventy-three years of age, and his exact where abouts and present status in Nazi-Occupied France are unknown. He accompanied the French Cabinet to Bordeaux in 1940, and then dropped from the ...

... IT used to be a regular thing to read and hear that civil war would very likely, almost certainly, follow the freeing of France from the Germans. Heads would be knowingly shaken. It wouldn't be just a case of the Vichy Militia and the Paris pro- Nazi brigades opposing to the death any attempt to reanimate a Republic more Left than the last. A large number of those who had stayed in France ...

... JUST ONE ROAD WITHIN THE POCKET: German tanks and transport wrecked by rocket- firing Typhoons of the R.A.F. as they attempted to escape from the Falaise trap a scene which shows how the enemy's columns were wiped out from the air, and one which was duplicated on many other roads around Falaise THE REMNANTS OF THE ENEMY'S TRANSPORT TRY TO CROSS THE SEINE. The place is the west bank of the ...

... PARIS IS FREE AGAIN THE FRENCH FLAG FLIES OVER THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE a picture taken during General de Gaulle's first official duty in the capital, when he laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior just after his entry For a week before its total capture on Friday, August 25, the French Forces of the Interior had been fighting the Germans in Paris. With the entry of the tanks of General ...

... First Pictures from PARIS After its liberation by the Allies on Friday, August 25 (See also pages 294-5 of this issue) C]J The whole story of the liberation of the French capital will be given in completeness in next week's issue fter General de Gaulle had visited the Arc de Triomphe, as recorded on the front page this issue, he set out to walk down the historic imps-Elysees towards the Place ...

... MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL watches the landing of the American and French forces comprising the Seventh Army on August 15 He was taken to the scene of action in the British destroyer Kimberley. When this pic ture was taken, the Prime Minister was actually watching the Allied troops going ashore HAUTE SAVOIE French Forces of the In terior with their improvised tank a heavy lorry of everyday commerce ...

... In November 1940, Marshal An- tonescu led Rumania Into the Axis and broke with the Allies. In June 1941, when Germany made her assault on Russia, Rumania declared war against that country, too six days after the German invasion. Britain declared war on Rumania on December 7, 1941, and the United States on December 12, five days after Pearl Harbour. Since then Rumania has suffered bitterly in ...

... THE TOWN OF VIRE IN RUINS. It lies on a hill by the river of the same name in the British push southwards from Caen, it was strongly held by the Germans, and bitter fighting took place continuously from July 30 until its final capture by a combined force of British and Americans. Now all its buildings in the centre of the town have only their walls standing, under the incessant pounding of the ...

... mniH jjii i Bll!jjl!jl ft l EAAUUkBSaBdikSiUAUAlUAli fea^fcw, *SS2-' 5*$SBBS5 T OUT IN THE BATTLE AREA, the stretcher-bearers drop into a crater with a wounded man, flinging themselves to the ground as a mortar shell explodes near by r^afc^SBgfcif^iSTsy- ON THE WAY BACK TO A REGIMENTAL AID POST, the jeep has a rough journey passing over the shell- and bomb-craters. One of the R.A.M.C. unit ...

... Come days ago Rodney set out from a British port to bombard Aldemey, in the Channel Islands. Arrived at her appointed place, the battleship anchored in deliberate fashion and then, for 2\ hours, pumped her one-ton projectiles into a German battery on land 20 miles away. In all, she fired seventy-five rounds from her 16-in. guns, the biggest carried by any warship afloat to-day, and wrought ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 261 The opening of the Sixth Year) i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Paris is Free.-- In his own bible, Hitler made clear that he both despised and feared the French, and designed that France should never rise again as a first-class or military Power. In 1940 he was sure that she never would. Of his chief antagonists, he hates no man more than Churchill. And here is Churchill ...

... When the Kussian Army approached Warsaw at the beginning of August, the sound of the guns acted as a match to the fuse of the underground organisation. These patriot forces had long been preparing for the day of liberation, and in expectation of a further advance by the Kussian Army a general attack was made on a number of key positions within the city. The movement began by the taking-over of ...