... 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 ...

... I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. France and Britain.-- General de Gaulle has put forward for consideration a long and states manlike argument directed to con vincing the peoples of France and Britain that the peace of Europe requires the closest collaboration hence forth between these two major Powers of Europe. General de Gaulle is a soldier and he stresses both the military and the economic ...

... EH&SI Foreign Ministers of the Allied Nations have been meet ng in St. James's in London to discuss preliminary questi >ns upon which the peace of the world will ultimately be based. The Council was founded at the Potsdam Conference live Powers are represented on it Britain, the United Stages, the Soviet Union, China and France. Among the questi ns down for discussion are, first and foremost, ...

... 1 1 h'iu rll li 1 m MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN BERLIN OPENS A STREET-CORNER CLINIC A German girl is measured by a member of the Field Ambulance Unit at the corner of the Kurfurstendamm CLEARING UP IN BERLIN Women engaged in the salvage of bricks. Scenes familiar to all Londoners in 1943 and 1944 are now just as familiar to the people of Berlin. Dangerous buildings, damaged by the Allied air raids, ...

... A WOUNDING event to the human race-- the dropping of the first atom bomb on August 6, 1945-- was immediately followed by a crop of articles and pronouncements saying of armies, navies and air forces Good-bye to all those! Calculations extended to computing the vast numbers who would not again be needed in Services hereafter redundant, or in likewise superfluous arms and equipment factories, ...

... IN MANILA the meeting in the city hall between general macarthur's officers and the Japanese surrender delegation, to discuss THE TERMS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FORMAL SURRENDER The Emperor of Japan s personal representative, with a party of fifteen other Japanese officers and officials, arrived in Manila on August 19. Only six of them were admitted to the preliminary talks these are seen in ...

... NOW that Lend-Lease has come to such a dramatic conclusion and this country will be compelled more than ever to cut down her imports, and there fore rely more and more on home-grown foodstuffs, the numbers and employment of enemy prisoners of war is of the first importance. To-dav there are 207,000 German prisoners of yar and 153,000 Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain. Of these, 50,000 ...

... ON ROYAL DEESIDE-- HARVESTING IN THE HIGHLANDS Harvesting has now been in pro gress in Scotland in earnest for some little time past. The crops are reported to be good, although heavy rainstorms have beaten down the grain in some districts. Oats provide the mam crop in the Highlands this picture, showing the cutting of the oats, was taken on Deeside looking towards Braemar, where the King and ...

... A house intimately connected with Charles Dickens is in danger of being demolished to make way for a post-war building scheme. If this should come about, it would be regrettable from several points of view. No. 1, Devonshire Terrace was the home of Charles Dickens for ten years from 1339-1849 a period of his early manhood, when his fame as a novelist v. as growing year by year. Some of the ...

... In the present state of medical knowledge The doctors of the Golden Age were the sun and the good fresh air, and man's leisure to enjoy them. As life became more complex it imposed an increasing strain on human nerves a strain which has perhaps reached its climax in the last few years. That is why even the strongest nervous system to-day must be kept adequately supplied with organic ...

... British scientists have found a way of in creasing the natural surface tension of water, making it technically possible to build a mid-Atlantic aerodrome or a floating cross- Channel bridge. One practical result of the discovery is the production of man-made islands which can be built to any shape or length required, and which can be easily dismantled, transported and reassembled. Another, ...