... T ndoubtedly some of the mo intriguing problems modern aviation are now beir tackled by scientists on both sid of the Atlantic, who are attempts to discover the secrets of Hi?! beyond the sonic barrier. Expo mental types are being product by several leading concerns, an Vickers are credited with harr on the stocks a rocket plane whit will be launched on its flight ftoj a parent plane flying at ...

... n his article on Persia the Cockpit of Europe. in The Sphere of April 6, Charles Graves emphasised the vital importance of Persia's oil pro duction and its inevitable attraction for the larger world Powers. The principal oil con cession was originally granted in 1901 to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a United King dom concern with an authorised capital of £33,000,000. The Company s property, ...

... I irJHBff At the beginning ol August, in the Australian House of Representatives, Mr. Forde, Minister for the Army, told for the first time one of the best-kept secrets of the war, the story of how British and Australian Service men journeyed 2,000 miles in an open boat and, by attaching mines to shipping in Singapore Harbour, destroyed seven vessels totalling 37,000 tons. The hazards of the ...

... jWJaiden Castle, the great pre-Roman settle ment which covered a 45-acre downland site on a Dorsetshire hill-top, was thoroughly explored in the years between the wars by Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, then Keeper of the London Museum. That it should now be kept in the possession of the Army as a training-ground seems unthinkable, for it is essentially a national monument of interest to antiquarian and ...

... When Signor Gasperi, the Italian Premier came before the Paris Conference to plead his country's cause, he urged upon the Allied leaders that he and his people regarded the Draft Treaty as extremely harsh towards Italy, urging that the Allies had forgotten the long and sustained struggle against Fascism waged by many Italians. Apart from the military clauses and from the question of Trieste, ...

... Both the Communists and the Chinese Government have been greatly impressed by President Truman's statement of American policy in China, his desire to see peace and order established there, and the Government broadened to include representative parties. China wishes to be regarded as a Great Power and to take her place among the Big Five dealing with the vital matters now facing those who have ...

... The Nile flood is an annual event comparable in regularity with the monsoon. The head waters of the river re ceive water from the constant rains of the equatorial areas round the great lakes, and they are conveyed down the White Nile to Khartoum where they meet the Blue Nile, which is itself enforced by the Atbara. This summer, how ever. the Nile floods have reached record-breaking proportions ...

... On right The atom bomb exploded under water in the lagoon at Bikini on July 24 was assembled on board the American warship Albemarle it was then transferred to a landing-ship and towed to its appointed place. This was a mooring midway between the doomed carrier Saratoga and the battleship Arhansas, which were some 1,000 yards apart. Dr. Marshall Holloway, young physicist from Los Alamos, New ...