... Britain Mourns Mr. Roosevelt Our Greatest American Friend The Late President Roosevelt *Sachrach. Boston Below is probably the last photograph of the President taken as he said good-bye to Princess Alice wife of the Earl of Athlone Governor-General of Canada when she and her husband were guests of the Roosevelts in Washington King Haxikon of Norway and his son*, Crown Prinoe Olaf arrived ...

... RUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE law professor was doing his best to instil a little knowledge of the subject into a collection of rather backward students. One morning he gave them a long lecture on the whole question of making a will, and at the end of it he thought he would test their memories. Now then, he said, what are the essentials to a last will and testament? Nobody ...

... , second sister of the Earl of Dudley, is Vice-President of the Hampshire branch of the British Red Cross Society. Her husband, Air Cdre. C. E. Benson, D.S.O., R. A.F., has been for the past two years in Sicily and Italy, attached to Eighth Army headquarters as Military Administrator A.M.G. The Benson's home is Shawford Park, Hampshire and they have two daughters, Gillian, who is working at ...

... in f SELF SI IDE PICTURES Three Films By James Agate I HAVE to thank the management of the Ritz Cinema for their courtesy in enabling me to see Farewell My Lovely, which has drawn and is still drawing the town. I confess I am bewildered. I had lunched wisely and not too well. I gave the film the utmost of my attention and was unable to make head or tail of it from start to finish. Why should ...

... In January 1944 the marriage took place in St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, of Capt. the Marquess of Douro, M C., Royal Horse Guards, only son of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, and Miss Diana McConnel. Lady Douro is the only daughter of Major-Gen. D. F. McConnel, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., G.O.C. Palestine and Transjordan, and Mrs. McConnel, of Knockdolian, Colmonell, Ayrshire. The present ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Air's Fair MORE than ever, now that that great friend of Britain, F. D. Roosevelt, has gone, is it necessary to take steps to ensure that amicable relation are maintained between Great Britain and the United States. There can be little doubt that a source of danger to these relations is aviation. Whether Britain fears America's commercial air power or not, she ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Smashing GERMAN militarism is to be smashed wherever it exists. Not until Hitler's Reich is occupied from end to end will there be a proclamation that the war is over in Europe. Such places as Norway and Denmark will have to be invaded and cleared of the enemy. The enemy will have to be dug out of his strongly held positions in Northern Italy. The French Channel ...

... Dining Out Some of Those Who Did The Viceroy of India and Lady Wavell Entertain in a London Restaurant Lord Wavell host at the Bagatelle one night, sat between Mrs. Michael Crichton- Stew art and his youngest daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Simon Astley, icho was married in 1943 Capt. Michael Crichlon-Stewart and Capt. the Hon. Simon Astley were on either side of Lady Wavell. Capt. Astley, 7th Hussars ...

... Melodrama in Algiers The Assassin is a Romantic Conception of the Murder of Admiral Darlan Malassis You will go with me to the Surete and tell all you know about your plans for putting certain coastal batteries out of action In Boubard' s Cafe Algiers a meeting of the Underground is interrupted by the arrival of Vichy Agent Malassis Admiral Vespery I am going to start an organisation that wiH ...

... By Sabretache Toll for the Brave IT has been customary to assert that no one is irreplaceable. This has never been true of the brave. Of poltroons and the mean- spirited the world has enough and to spare: it can never afford the loss of anyone whose courage is of the first water. In this country we have a special admiration for this great quality, and thus are so sorely stricken with a grief ...

... This picture was taken on the occasion of the C.-in.C. India's visit to the Centre. Front row Majors D. B. Harrel, D.S.O., R. G. Naidu, R. J. Norris, F. L. Boyd, Brig. S. W. Bower, O.B.E., Col. R. H. Culley (Commandant), Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, G.C.B., G.C.I.E., C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E., A.D.C. (C.-in-C., India), Lt.-Col. C. R. A. Meadmore, Lt.-Col. W. R. P. Ridgway, T.D., Majors ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Shakespeare for the Village LOVE for the theatre goes deep. And it can take other, more active forms than the most faithful round of theatre-going. Children, on their return from the play, re-act the scenes they have most enjoyed; and often, I believe, get still greater pleasure out of their own performance. Many of us remember, how ever far back, attempts to construct a ...