... THE WAY OF THE WORLD By Simon Harcourt-Smith Cloud Cuckoo-Land POSSIBLY it is my early training; but for me the vagueness of all parties on foreign policy lends to the General Election a curiously dreamlike air. Housing, full employment, nationalization or private enterprise-- only a fool would deny the majesty of such issues. Yet if we cannot scotch the dangers once more sprouting in Europe, ...

... MYSELF AT THE HEMES Sillier and Sillier By James Agate MY gifted colleague, Miss Lejeune, has been asking her readers to tell her which, in their opinion, are the ten most remarkable moments on the screen. I propose, in a virtually barren week, to invite readers to contemplate what in my view are the cinema's ten worst plots. (1) The High School girl who on Prize- giving Day at Vermont gives ...

... A Family of Four Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Willie Pike with Their Two Small Sons at Vine Farm, Worplesdon Vine Farm, Worplesdon, Surrey, has been leased from its owner, Constance Lady Russell, by Lieut. -Col. Willie Pike and his charming wife. Lieut. -Col. Pike, who until lately has been on the Continent with his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, is at present attached to the Sixth Airborne Division. He ...

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... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 306 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Our Little War.-- During the last Presidential Election, some of us in England had excuse for wondering whether America had any time or inclination to remember the little wars in Europe and the Far East which seemed forgotten in the urgent fury and bitterness of that election. Of late it has been tit-for-tat. As a journalist, charged ...

... On J une 20 Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the Governor of Burma, began his conference with the Burmese leaders, to discuss future plans for Burma as embodied in the White Paper. The conference was held on a British warship in Rangoon Harbour. It was attended, on the British side, by Lieut. -General F. A. M. Browning (representing Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Com mander in South-East ...

... SO much interest seems to have been shown in my researches into the General Election im mediately after the last war that I am encouraged to attempt the same technique with the coming Peace Treaty, now that the San Francisco Conference has given the green light. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors on June 28, 1919. The Big Four were Clemenceau, Lloyd George, President ...

... A nother D-Day achievement by Britain has just been revealed by the War Office the Hampden Train Ferry, illustrated on this page. By means of these craft, loco motives, railway wagons, mobile work shops and other very heavy equipment were shipped direct to France so that supplies to the Allied Armies should not be held up. lhe rerry bhips were devised by the War Department tp carry special ...

... SUBMARINE DANCER IN J NETWORK OF SUNLIGHT. Under-water callisthenics have a grace of their own and an additional zest when performed by champion ESTHER WILLIAMS. When you re as good in the water as she is, this sort of thing is easier than dancing on the lawn. Going for a sprint at the bottom of the pool takes a lot more effort than it seenj to. If you 've ever tried to cover ground against ...

... Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten's Dramatic Opera of Life in a Suffolk Fishing Village Boles 44 I want her, I want her Bob Boles, a Methodist fisherman, makes drunken advances to one of the innkeeper's nieces, at the inn where the fisherfolk are all carousing. Roderick Jones, Morgan Jones, Blanche Turner and Minnia Bower) Ellen 44 Let this be a holiday, Full of peace and quietness Ellen Orford ...