... Those Silesians who fled to Czecho slovakia ahead of the advancing Russians during the last days of the war are now being returned to their homes behind the Russian lines, after realising that the German propaganda concerning Russian terrorism was not true. Americans have been instructed to conduct them to the Russian Military Zone, where Red Army men will take over and see them resettled in ...

... NOT one of the hundred and more journalists who crowded into the Salon de l'Horloge at the Quai d'Orsay seventeen years ago to the week had the remotest inkling of the first use to which would be put the international instrument whose signing was the cause of their presence. There was scepticism about the Kellogg Pact's capacity to stop war. It even mounted to ridicule in mv hearing. ...

... aaai pxpenments in handling the Okinawans, which should be useful practice for what will have to be done when we get into Japan, are now being carried out by the American Military Administration, according to a despatch from Mr. Gordon Walker on Okinawa Island. There is a distinct difference between the two civilian populations. Okinawans are not, by and large, as advanced culturally as ...

... SUBMARINES ARE SERVICED AND SUPPLIED AT SEA BY SPECIAL SUBMARINE TENDERS These three American vessels have returned from a war patrol to an Advance Base in the Pacific they have here come alongside a tender for supplies and emergency repairs. The tenders are part of the U.S. Service Force a fleet made up of auxiliaries of every type which service, maintain, repair and supply the combatant ...

... THE TRIAL OF THE TRAITOR, VIDKUN QUISLING, IN OSLO A scene in the courtroom at the opening of the trial. Quisling is seated in the dock on his left is his defence counsel an armed guard is seated behind. Abraham Vidkun Quisling, the man who gave his name to collaborators and traitors all over the world, is on trial In the specially-prepared auditorium of the old Masonic Temple at Oslo. He is ...

... THE MAN WHO HOPES TO BECOME KING OF SPAIN The Spanish Pretender, )uan de Bourbon, with his wife and their four children, at his home in Switzerland, where he is forced to live in exile until he receives the call to return DON JUAN WITH HIS WIFE, THE PRINCESS MARIA MERCEDES Juan de Bourbon is the younger son of Alfonso XIII with the elimination of his elder brothers, he is now the Pretender to ...

... Pouring the war, Malvern College became a Government Estab lishment known as T.R.E., or Telecommunication Research Estab lishment. The greatest body of physicists ever assembled together in this country over 2,400 of them there overcame one major strate gical problem after another the U-boat war, defence against aerial attack, and accurate bombing methods. The keynote of the research was, of ...

... mmmn n TAKEN IN THE GARDEN AT NO. 10 DOWNING STREET ministers of the new cabinet, who will administer the affairs OF THE STATE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. This is one of a number of pictures taken during a photographic call last week. Under-Secretaries are not included in the group On left- SOME OF THI PRINCIPAL MINISTERS, in a specially-posed group In front Lord Addison, Lord Jowitt, Sir ...

... The American Army's first jet-propelled combat plane, the P8o Shooting Star, is here shown in mass production on the mechanised assembly line at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's factory in Burbank, in the Pacific Coast state of California. The single turbo-jet engine is installed in the tail of the plane its armament of six 50-calibre machine-guns is located in the plane's nose, for the ...

... Picture on right belou: THREE MINUTES AFTER THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB HAD BEEN DROPPED ON NAGASAKI-- The great white cap on top of the dust column 10 miles up in the sky Drawing by Roland Davies Air crews near the city where the bomb dropped said that Nagasaki went up in a roar of smoke and flame which could be seen for 250 miles. A whirling cloud of black smoke rose more than 10 miles in- the ...

... EXPERTO CREDE.-- No revelation of recent days gave me a more profound shock (and perhaps stimulus) than that of the Great Vermeer forgeries. The rights of the story are still to come. If the Press reports (which have received curiously little comment, considering the interest and the problems one would expect such a con fession to raise) are true, it appears that a clever copyist has in the ...

... On August 18, at the mouth of quiet Glenfinnan, in Inverness-shire, the part of the clans in the Rising of '45 was commemorated at the historic Pillar marking the spot where, two centuries ago, Bonnie Prince Charles raised the Standard. Thousands of Scots from all parts were present, and thousands of overseas spectators. The central figures at the gathering were Lochiel, a de scendant of the ...