... .kUOT r I -la r THE STREETS OF THE GERMAN CAPITAL, WRECKED BY BOMBING AND SHELL-FIRE, ARE STILL UNCLEARED This is one of the hundreds of once-busy thoroughfares, roads, avenues, streets, squares in Berlin. A squad of citizens are clearing rubble in the distance under Red Army supervision but an immense amount has still been untouched including the wreckage of cars turned on to the side-walks. ...

... . A PHOTOGRAPH BY KARSH, OF OTTAWA. Cooking for the Conference teas MR. GEORGE MARDIKIAN, owner of the Omar Khayyam Restaurant, San Francisco. Apart from the importance of his skill and expertise to the world get-together, the chef is a most picturesque figure in his gleaming white rig-out a heartening prophetic symbol to the rationed ...

... SUBJECTS OF PERFECT AGREEMENT AT SAN FRANCISCO I 44 THE DESPERATE HEART 14 Barbara Morgan s fine photograph of Valerie Bettis expressing the poignant remembrance of a lost love. 44 LAMENTATION 44 Martha Graham photographed in a moving and tragic dance sequence by Barbara Morgan who uses a notable new technique. FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA MORGAN. THERE was at least one question at San Fran ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. EMLYN WILLIAMS plays the lead, Ambrose Ellis, in his own play, 44 THE WIND OF HEAVEN, at the St. James's Theatre. Ambrose is a successful vulgarian, a circus proprietor with a tough and mercenary philosophy of life. At least, that is the outward man, but when the 44 Wind of Heaven blows, it reveals the inner man, as a Welsh poet and visionary. Mr. Williams gives ...

... . In the dressing-room tent behind the scenes at the Open Air Theatre, ANNA BURDEN got into her elaborate Shakespearean costume to play Celia in 44 As You Like It GEORGE HAYES, who does more than justice to the part of the melancholy Jaques, trimmed his beard in the large mirror in front of his dressing-tent. HELEN GIBSON adjusted her tights outside the dressing-tent, giving a finishing touch ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 304 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Welcome Signs of Pro gress.-- The week-end of mid- June brought several welcome signs of progress despite, and in the harle quinade of, electioneering. The whole House and country welcomed the British offer to India, a sincere and large-scale effort to end the deadlock since the Cripps proposals were refused, to secure a united front in ...

... YVVhen the Air Forces of the American Army came over to Britain to join the R.A.F. in the great assault on Nazi Germany, Lease-Lend was reversed. To accommodate the American planes and airmen, Britain provided airfields, camps and depots, and in the allocation of con structional labour the requirements of the U.S.A.A.F. ranked equally with those of the R.A.F. The execution of this great ...

... Away back in April on the 26th of that month the war correspondents wired that the 15th Army Group had stormed Verona, the gateway to the Brenner. It looked then that the passage of that Army Group through the historic Pass was assured. But events entirely upset this supposition. The tide of Allied victory did not flow through the Brenner from south to north. It flowed, in totally unexpected ...

... No sooner had the enemy's undersea threats to shipping ceased when Nature herself stepped in to cause grave trouble in the Atlantic. This occurred in the neighbour hood of the famous Newfoundland Banks, an area of comparatively shallow water covering a submerged land- shelf extending westwards from Newfoundland. Part of the bank lies due south of Cape Race, the most southerly point of ...

... AMERICAN PREFABRICATED HOUSES ARRIVE IN LONDON A mobile crane lifts the packing-cases containing the sections and places them on the site ready for unpacking and erection. The first American Lease-Lend temporary house arrived at a site in Weir Hall Road, Tottenham, a few days ago. Packed in seven cases, the house was brought straight from the dock to its site on the back of two lorries The ...

... A BRITISH ARMY ENGINEERING FEAT-- ANOTHER CLOSELY-KEPT SECRET OF THE WAR The building of two great ports on the West Coast of Scotland to deal with military traffic after the Fall of France. A view of the No. I Military Port at Gareloch, showing the deep-water berth, with the lighter pool on the left it was opened in the year 1942 This picture (and the one on page 323 of this issue) shows ...

... III MM ImjI>] aViIS Bl The final chapter in the life of Hitler's Third Reich which was to have endured for a Thousand Years came to in end on June 5, when the Ail ed Leaders met for the first time in Berlin. The object of the meeting was to sign a joint Declaration on the complete defeat of Germany and to assume power, as the Allied Control Council, over what remains of the Reich. The ...