... H.M. Government Reception 111 to Representatives of the Allied Forces The Secretary of State for Air and Lady Stansgate Received the Guests The Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and Major-Gen. Skliarov, ti c 1 Soviet Military and Air Attache, at the reception held at Seafo d J House, Belgrave Square The Minister for Air, Lord Stansgate, and Lady Stansgate with the Belgian Air Attache. Lord Stansgate ...

... 1 The Infante Juan who uses the title of Count of Barcelona when incognito, on the golf links at Lausanne. He is the youngest son of the late King Alfonso XIII., and is the Pretender to the Spanish throne The Infanta Maria Christina younger daughter of the late King Alfonso, is the wife of Count Enrico Eugenio Marone. She was married in 1940, and has two little girls, Vittoria and Giovanna The ...

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... Marriage of the Earl of Bessborough's Daughter Lady Moyra and Mr. Denis Browne, Guests and Attendants at the Reception The marriage of Lady Moyra Ponsonby, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bcssborough, to Mr. Denis John Browne, the distinguished surgeon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Browne, was an important social function, and the guests at the ceremony in Grosvenor Chapel, and the ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Money and Motors WHEN an individual is in low water financially, he stops borrowing and tries to save; when a nation is in low water it seems that it starts borrowing and begins to spend on every conceivable social and other service at record speed. In all the talk that went on about the American loan, this central fact about the behaviour of Britain now escaped ...

... Throughout five years of war Mrs. A. V. Alexander never failed, whatever the difficulties, to hold her Christmas Party for Allied Children at Admiralty House, and this year the gathering was once again one of the best children's parties of the season. The amusements included the roundabout generously lent by Mr. Butlin, and the Sparks Marionettes. Among the guests were the daughter of Mme. ...

... Mr. M. Gaisford, Irish Guards took the floor with Miss Mary Brock- Edwards, daughter of Lady Chesham This supper-table group consists of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Templeton, Mr. Michael Parkes, Miss Joanna Littleton Mr. Peter Kapff, the Hon. Sheila Portman, the Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, elder son of Lord Stansgate, Miss Charmian Allsopp, Miss Rose Anne Templeton and Lt. Angus Cadder R.A.N. V.R. ...

... PICTURES IN THE EIRE By Sabretache Gi >.d National Entries As most of the ninety-one are certain to want to see their weights, and as he has got to handicap them in any case, every feeling ought to bleed for The Dispenser. He has a more-than-usually difficult task, an inter national collection with, in so many cases, no connecting-link, and, where our own are con cerned, only last season's ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Heath Row White Elephant FEW of the criticisms of Heath Row that appeared in the London newspapers showed an understanding of the real trouble. The argument against Heath Row can be summed up by saying that its runway pattern is unsuited to high density air traffic. Nothing could save Heath Row and make it an airport capable of serving London's millions except ...

... Portraits of representatives of the American and British Red Cross in Great Britain and Western Europe are being exhibited at the Cooling Galleries, Neiv Bond Street. Here Mrs. Eva Baker Asst. Director of Charles Street Clubs and Mrs. Lichirie the former Joyce Lady Hoive), Programme Director of the Columbia Club admire the lattePs portrait Among other portraits is that of Mrs. Charles Sweeny, ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL JENNIFER writes HIGH HONOURS AFTER the brief but all-important inter ruption of his holiday to visit London in order to welcome the world representatives to St. James's Palace, His Majesty returned to Sandringham to continue, with the Queen and the two Princesses, the simple round of country pleasures in which he, like many another wise man before him, finds his greatest ...

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