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... . MRS. ERNEST BEVIN, wife of the new Foreign Secretary, and MISS BEVIN attended the gala premiere of 44 A Bell for Adano in aid of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls. From this point of vantage, wives of cricketers watched the England v. Australia Test match in Manchester. Our group includes MRS. J. WORKMAN, MRS. S. SISMEY, MRS. J. PARKINSON, MRS. D. WRIGHT and- MRS. W. ...
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... Since the great earthquake in Tokyo the Japanese have built up many steel and reinforced concrete buildings. Here is a modern store in the city's principal shopping thoroughfare The Japanese play a substitute game of draughts which is called Go. The women play it as Occidentals play bridge A Japanese peasant girl carrying her empty vegetable baskets on her way to the fields near Matsushima. ...
... : Reviewed by Trevor zjfllen ADMIRAL SIR BERTRAM HOME RAMSAY has at least two claims to distinction. As C.-in-C. of the Allied Expeditionary Force in vading Hitler's fortress on D-Day he shouldered-- Commander Kenneth Ed wards, R.N., claims-- a greater respon sibility than any officer had ever been called upon to assume in the whole history of warfare. As a midshipman he went to serenade the ...
... Way of the World By Simon Harcourt-Smith The American Mind BY the time this appears we may know something of our negotiations with America to find a substitute for Lease-Lend. Let us in the meanwhile be careful not to look aggrieved. All the luscious sentimentalities of the last few years, resounding platitudes about a common love of democracy and a common stock have dangerously obscured the ...
... Perfect Strangers A Glemence Dane Solution To The Problems 01' War Separation In Perfect Strangers a young couple, separated by war, are faced by all the emotional diffi culties of readjustment which must be facing many hundreds of young couples today. It is Clemence Dane's solution to a world-wide problem. In it, Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr establish their first screen partnership. The film ...
... ON AND OFF DUTY A Chronicle of Town and Country Palace Visitors BEFORE they left London for Balmoral, both Their Majesties were busy with various matters and engagements which they wished to clear up in order to begin their holiday in the North with nothing outstanding. At Buckingham Palace, the King gave final pre-holiday audiences to both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, and ...
... Horse Show, Gymkhana and Grand Fete Held at Ellens, the Home of Major and Mrs. Carlos Clarke at Rudgwick, in Sussex Although the weather was dull, it was warm and the rain kept off during the very successful combined Horse Show, Gymkhana and Grand Fete which was held at Ellens, the home of Major and Mrs. Carlos Clarke. The proceeds went to the funds for the new village hall, and everyone ...
... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Saving Face and Wasting Time.-- If I were an Australian statesman, I should temper my relief at Japan's defeat with anxiety for the not far distant future. The next weeks may put a different complexion on the face of things. Just now Japan looks like a by-no-means extinct volcano. Hirohito may be still the Son of Heaven, still the one institution which all Japanese ...
... Six days before Japan surrendered, Russia declared war upon her, in fulfilment of a promise made to the Allies to join with them against the Far Eastern enemy when the war in Europe was over. China had been at war with Japan for eight years, and America and Great Britain since December 7, 1941. Russia entered the war with vigour with full military force, and with all the experience gained ...