... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... THE ROCKET SHIP AND ITS FORMIDABLE EQUIPMENT--THE OVERWHELMING ALLIED WEAPON USED IN EVERY INVASION IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC SINCE ANZIO REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME. This photograph has just been released by the U.S. Navy Department it shows how the rocket equipment is installed on the deck of a special landing craft To gain a foothold on the strongly-defended coast of Europe, the rocket ship ...

... Secrets of the work carried out by the R.A.F. in their almost uncanny photographic reconnais sance flights were revealed a few days ago when, for the first time, British journalists visited the R.A.F. Stations at Benson and Medmenham-- nerve centres of the camera war. At Benson, headquarters of No. 106 Group, which was responsible for vitally important photographic reconnaissances, the Air ...

... After the vilest treatment at the hands of the Japs during their four years of internment, relief was speedily brought to the British prisoners on the island of Singapore. Almost before the surrender formalities had been completed, plans had been put into execution for the dropping of medical relief teams by parachute. In the drawing by Mr. Roland Davies given above, the island, with its great ...

... THE GREAT MOMENT ON BOARD THE U.S.S. MISSOURI On behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, General Yoshira Umaza signs the surrender document. Standing in front of him is Lieut.-General Richard K. Sutherland, Chief of Staff. General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander, stands by the microphone on the left CHARTING TOKYO BAY for the entry of the Allied Fleet: A conference on ...

... Among the many merchant ships which have been doing wartime jobs are the armed merchant cruisers. These will probably be the first to return to their normal peace time business of cargo and passenger-carrying. To reconvert these after six years of war is no light task. To remove the guns and gun positions is comparatively easy, but this is not all. Much internal structural work has to be done. ...